Sunday, 4 March 2012

7 hurt in latest running of the bulls at San Fermin festival in Spanish town of Pamplona

Bulls roughed up seven people Sunday as they thundered down the rain-slicked cobblestone streets of Pamplona during the weeklong San Fermin festival, officials said.

Sunday's run _ the seventh of the festival _ featured six massive Miura bulls, traditionally the largest and fastest-running fighting bulls bred in Spain. Many of those running alongside the bulls had to dive for cover as the pack neared during the half-mile (850-meter) stretch from corral to the bullring, with some crushed, cut and bruised.

One man was smashed against a wooden crash barrier as the bulls rounded a bend on the course and skidded sideways into him. Another escaped a goring when …

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