Seven people were injured by bulls during the third day of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona this morning.
Two people were gored and several others were injured in the crush during the traditional 850-metre run through the streets of the Spanish town.
According to the Spanish daily El Pais, one man was gored in his left leg and taken to Hospital Virgen del Camino in Pamplona where his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
A Spanish man gored in the thorax during the same run is described as being in a “serious” condition.
The other five injured people included three Spanish men, an Israeli and a US national.
Last year, Irishman Alan Chambers, was almost killed after he received extensive bruising to the head and back when he was pinned down by a bull during the event.
The bull-run through the cobbled streets of the town in the Navarra region takes place every morning at 8.00am during the week-long San Fermín festival. It takes just under four minutes for the six bulls to race through the town to the bullring, where they are later killed in a bullfight.
The fiesta was made famous by Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises and now attracts hundreds of runners from around the world, often drinking all night before the early morning run.
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