A Briton, an American and an Australian were among six injured today in the first of this year's bull runs in Pamplona.
The run was the first of eight in the annual San Fermin festival from July 7-14, a spectacle made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1927 novel "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises".
Scores of Spaniards and foreign tourists jostled to avoid the deadly horns of the bulls as they hurtled along the course through the historic centre of the northern Spanish town to the bullring.
Conditions were treacherous, with bulls and runners alike sliding on the wet cobblestones. Several bulls became separated from the herd and turned angrily on the terrified runners, many still dazed after partying all night.
One of the worst injured, a 19-year-old American woman identified as MS Elinzey Sain from Kansas, was gored in her right leg. Mr Luke Versace (19) from Australia, suffered a less serious wound behind his left knee, while Londoner Mr Paul Staines (37) sustained a blow to the face.
Thirteen people have been killed in the running of the bulls since 1900, the last a young American man in 1995.