1 killed, 2 gored in Spain’s bull runs

A participant jumps over a bull in the ring on the third day of the San Fermin bull run in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

A man from Valencia died on Saturday after being gored in a late-night bull run near the southern Spanish town of Alicante, while two men were gored and 12 others injured in the more popular morning bull-run race in Pamplona.

The deadly goring occu-rred about 1 am during festivities at the small village of Pedreguera, where the Red Cross said the heifer gored the 29-year-old man through the thorax and abdomen. He was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead an hour later. The town suspended all bull-related festivities for the day.

At the famed San Fermin festival, the bull run was unusually long, with one bull left stranded at the starting gate, where he proceeded to charge and strike a couple of runners.

Many other participants fell and were stampeded by the head of the pack in the 930-yard (850-meter) race.

Another of the six bulls in the run got separated from the pack, did a U-turn and gored a nearby runner, lifting his body off the ground and flipping him over. A government statement said a 33-year-old Japanese man and a 24-year-old Spaniard were gored. The Navarra hospital confirmed the Japanese man had suffered a 15-centimetre thorax wo-und and was still under observation, while the lo-cal man was gored in his right arm.