Madrid - A New York man was paralysed below the waist while dodging young bulls with other revellers in the bullring at Spain's San Fermin Festival in Pamplona on Friday, festival organisers said.
The 31-year-old, named by hospital authorities as Ray Ducharn, was undergoing surgery after being taken to intensive care after he was hurt while trying to escape when the animals were released in Pamplona's bullring following the famous running of the bulls through the town's streets.
It was unclear exactly how Ducharn was injured but he did not appear to have been gored, organisers said.
The famous running of the bulls into the bullring and the release of young bulls and cows into ring where they charge people are separate events.
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Another six people were injured dodging six half-ton bulls from the Marques de Domecq ranch, including another New Yorker, a Briton and a New Zealander who was gored in the thigh on the first day of the week-long San Fermin festival.
While the festival made famous internationally by Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises has ancient roots, many of the runners are now foreign tourists and the danger is increased by a tradition of drinking all night before the run.
A total of 15 people have been killed during the festival since 1924.
The bulls are despatched by matadors in the afternoons following the runs.
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