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One killed, 446 injured in eight Pamplona bull runs (Roundup)
Jul 14, 2009, 11:53 GMT
Pamplona, Spain - This year's bull runs in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona killed one person and caused injuries to 446 people, the Red Cross said after the final bull run on Tuesday.
Forty-three of the victims were taken to hospital. Eight were gored by bull horns, twice as many as in 2008.
Most of the injuries were sustained by runners falling, getting knocked over or trampled by the animals.
Tuesday's bull run caused injuries to 54 people, four of whom were taken to hospital. No one was reported seriously injured.
The risks involved in the eight-day bull runs have been debated this year after 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno was gored fatally in the neck and lung on Friday.
Jimeno was the first fatality since 2003, when another Spaniard was trampled to death.
The death toll is now running at 15 since record-keeping began in 1924.
The Pamplona bull runs are organized in honour of the city's patron Saint Fermin.
Every morning for eight days, half a dozen fighting bulls are released to run from their corral through narrow streets to the bullfighting arena.
Hundreds of men run with the bulls, with a rolled-up newspaper as their only permitted defence from the animals' horns.
The bull runs, which were made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, draw hundreds of thousands of tourists to the city of 185,000 residents.
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