An Australian received on Wednesday two horns of a bull and two wounded for other reasons during the second running of the San Fermin festival, after thousands of people to risk running six fighting bulls through the streets Pamplona, in northern Spain.
The person injured by goring was a man of 27 years, identified only by his initials TLO, said the press office of the holidays. He was wounded in the groin and thigh in the bullring of Pamplona, done the tour ends. The wounded man was treated by doctors on site before being transferred to a hospital in the city. His injuries were minor condition, said the spokesman.
In addition, a Spanish was hospitalized with injuries to the ribs and a Frenchman received attention for several bruises before being discharged.
On Tuesday, in the first running of the holidays, two Americans and a Briton suffered gorings and eight others were injured. All but the two Americans were discharged the same day.
One of the Americans who remained hospitalized was Mike Webster, therapist 38 from Gainesville, Florida. Webster suffered a bull horn wound in the armpit while running in the streets of Pamplona on his 38th placing in 11 years, he said in his hospital bed.
On Tuesday he said it had not decided whether he would try.
Meanwhile, the other hospital, identified only by his initials RHO, 25 year-old resident of Tempe, Arizona, suffered facial injuries.
daily closure, broadcast live on national television, six fighting bulls run through 850 meters from a corral to the bullring. Then they deal with professional bullfighters death in bullfights in the afternoon. The nine-day festival in Pamplona, who gained fame by Ernest Hemingway’s novel “Feast” (The Sun Also Rises) 1926, attracts thousands of tourists.
The closures are part of traditional festivals Summer in the country. Dozens of people are injured, especially when suffering falls
Two men recently died of gorings at festivals. One Saturday in Grao de Castellon in the east, and the other on June 24 Coria, in the Southwest.
In total, 15 people have died gored in San Fermin since 1924, when they began to keep accounts.
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