US brothers gored in bloody bull run

Two American brothers were recovering today from serious injuries after they were gored during the bloodiest day yet at the San Fermin festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona.

Lawrence Lenahan, 26, of Hermosa Beach, California, and his brother, Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were gored yesterday by a bull who strayed from the pack, turned around and charged the wrong way during the daily morning bull run.

Thirteen people in total were injured and seven were gored, including the Lenahan brothers and other two men very seriously.

Michael Lenahan, a sales executive, was injured shortly before the bull ring - the end point of the daily runs – after the bulls horn entered beneath his skin in his right shin, causing him to recoil back, jaw open. The moment, caught on film, made the front page of several Spanish newspapers.

The older Lenahan suffered an eight-inch goring in the left buttock after a dangerous sharp right turn in the course which he described as a “dead man’s curve”.

The pack of six 1,300-pound bulls and six steers – intended to keep the bulls running in a single pack – disintegrated shortly after the animals set off on the course through the narrow cobblestone streets of Pamplona.

In today’s bull run, a few runners suffered only minor injuries.