Pamplona, Spain.- Five people were hospitalized after the first lockdown of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, including two Americans and a Spaniard who were bugged by the bulls, the city authorities in northern Spain reported the Sunday. A man, 46 years old and from San Francisco, was bugged in the neck during the lockdown, at the end of the 850-meter (930-yard) stretch. At the moment he was in surgery, the government of the region reported.
A 23-year-old kentucky-year-old boy and a 40-year-old Spaniard were mauled in the thighs. Two young Spaniards had head injuries. HELP US Click the Google News star and follow usThe nine-day San Fermin festival, where six bulls roam the city’s cobblestone alleyways every morning before being bundled in the afternoon, attracts around a million visitors each year. In each edition, hundreds of people run alongside the bulls avoiding being horned, while some avoid putting theself at risk and watch ingen the event from balconies.
The San Fermin festival lasts nine days. Photo: EFE
Some participate in the Sanfermines following in the footsteps of American writer and Nobel Prize winner of Literature Ernest Hemingway, who loved bullfighting and immortalized the festival in his 1926 book “‘Feast”. The inaugural confinement on Sunday had bulls of the Puerto de San Lorenzo cattle ranch, which also caused a corneada last year. The bulls ran together along the stretch of cobbled streets and barricaded. Near the end of the route, one of the bulls stumbled briefly, causing panic and at least a bugwhenasked one when he resumed his career and attacked some of the runners.
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The local Red Cross said its emergency personnel had treated 48 others for minor injuries, including two who had been trampled by the bulls.
