Four gored at bull running festival

BULLS gored four runners, seriously injuring two of them, during a packed running of the bulls on the sixth day of the San Fermin festival on Sunday.

One man, a Pamplona resident, was caught in the chest and legs when a bull became separated from the pack on the slippery cobblestone streets leading to the bullring.

The bull, a Miura weighing 1,268 pounds (575 kilograms), jerked the 44-year-old runner upward and then rolled him along the ground in the entrance to the ring.

Another man, a 56-year-old from nearby Rioja, was caught under the jaw by a horn.

Six people who were not gored were treated for other injuries yesterday, including one man with a suspected broken ankle.

Medical services spokesman Dr Fernando Boneta said that while many injuries were serious and four people had undergone emergency surgery, hospital staff did not rate any case as life-threatening. One man who was gored in the upper thorax and thigh had been successfully stabilised, Boneta said.

On Friday, Spaniard Daniel Jimeno Romero died after being gored in the upper chest and neck.