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Man dies at Spanish bull-run event
Jul 10, 2009, 7:44 GMT
Several \'mozos\' or runners are chased by a bull from Jandilla ranch during the fourth \'encierro\' or running bull run of the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, Spain, 10 July 2009. Four people were injured today but one was gored to death.The runner was moved to Navarra Hospital but died after a surgery. EPA/IVAN AGUINAGA
Pamplona - A man was killed on Friday at the annual running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, medical services said.
It is the first time since 2003 that a participant in the festival has died. The victim received a gore wound to the neck from the horns of an animal and died in hospital shortly afterwards.
The identity of the dead man has not yet been released. Three other participants were injured.
At the festival, which runs until July 14, each morning six bulls are released to run from their corral through the narrow streets of the city to the bullfighting arena. Traditionally hundreds of young men run in front of the bulls, with a rolled-up newspaper as their only permitted defence from the animals' horns.
In 2003 a 62-year-old Spanish man died in the event.
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gorey detailsJul 10th, 2009 - 16:03:46
'each morning six bulls are released to run from their corral through the narrow streets of the city to the bullfighting arena'
... where they endure a torturous, tormented death. The details are grim.
Though preferaby one of those tormentors should be gored, chalk one up for the bulls.
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