Spanish man gored to death by bull

A BULL gored a man to death during the world famous Pamplona run yesterday, piercing his neck, heart and lungs with its horns in front of thousands of tourists.

Witnesses pulled on the tail of the bull in a bid to get it away from the Spanish man who was thrown into the air by the animal.

Other runners jumped over wooden barriers along the edge of the cobbled streets where the San Fermin festival has been held since 1911.

The dead man was named by organisers as Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, from Alcalade Henares near Madrid. He was the 15th person to die in the annual run, but the first to be gored since 1995.

The last fatality before Romero was a Spanish bullfighter who died after a fall in 2003. He was in a coma for several weeks.

A British man aged 20, an Argentine, and a Spaniard were also gored yesterday but were recovering in hospital.