A runner was gored in the face and 12 others needed medical treatment after a chaotic Saturday bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival, hospital officials said.
A black bull broke from the pack early in the 875-meter course and charged into a group of runners, while pileups and falls on the cobblestones added to the injuries during the two-and-a-half-minute run.
The six bulls and accompanying steers still reached the bullring, where the animals are killed later in the day as part of the festival’s daily ritual.
Saturday marked the fifth of eight morning runs at this year’s festival, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.”
Deaths are rare — the last was in 2009 — but gorings and broken bones remain common as novices and foreign tourists join experienced local runners.