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Pamplona: A pack of running bulls gored one person and injured four others on Saturday during Pamplona's weeklong San Fermin festival, officials said.
Six massive fighting bulls slipped on dew-dampened cobblestones and tossed people aside along tightly packed, narrow streets on the run through the streets of the city to the bull ring.
At least three of the fierce animals from the renowned Dolores Aguirre Ybarra ranch fell despite being accompanied by guiding steers and staff-carrying bullherds along the 850-metre stretch.
The bull formation split, increasing the danger for daredevil runners as some can be caught between groups of the charging bulls, which each weigh close to a half-ton.
Saturday's run, the sixth in a weeklong Adrenalin- and alcohol-fuelled annual festival, was quick, lasting less than three minutes, despite an unusually large weekend crowd where serious bull running aficionados were joined by revellers.
One runner was caught between the horns of a bull, hit first by its left horn then the right one, before being nudged aside instead of gored.
Several people were caught in a crush of festival-goers and forced to dive for cover as the bulls approached, receiving cuts and bruises in the process.
The Navarra government said a 26-year-old Colombian man was taken to a hospital with a gored buttock; one Madrid dweller, 29, broke his nose; a 26-year-old man from Lesaka, Spain, fractured a wrist; a Barcelona man, 55, will require plastic surgery on his right ear; and a 33-year-old man from Ghana suffered a broken jaw.
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