Six people have been gored during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona in Spain. Reports said that two of the injured were foreigners - an American woman and a British man. The American woman suffered brain trauma and a twelve-inch wound through her thigh and a Spanish man suffered a throat injury.
A government spokesman said that many participants ignored the advice of organisers by trying to touch the bulls as they charged through the narrow streets, and that others appeared to be drunk. Witnesses said that the crowds lining the route of the bull run appeared bigger than usual, adding to the risk of injury.
Television images showed one man apparently gored in his stomach or chest and being attended by paramedics where he fell. Another man was seen to be lifted up in the air by a bull that caught him in the leg with one of its horns. The festival continues for nine days.
