Madrid - One raging bull left 13 people injured on Friday
during this year's eighth and final Running of the Bulls at the
Sanfermin festival in Pamplona.
The bull ran the 875-metre course through the narrow streets of the
northern Spanish city in two minutes and 10 seconds, faster than the
other bulls that have been baited and goaded to run through the
alleys every morning since July 7.
Three of those injured remain in the hospital, including one French
and one US citizen with concussion, according to the Europa Press
news agency.
Over the course of eight bull runs, seven people were injured by
horns while dozens more were treated because of slight injuries,
mostly bruises.
The nine-day Sanfermin festival attracts hundreds of thousands of
people from around the world every year. According to event
tradition, six bulls, some of them more than 600 kilograms in weight,
and several leaders of hundreds of men and some women are chased into
the arena for bullfighting.
Protests by animal welfare groups had been held this year in the
run-up to the event, which remains highly controversial in Spain.
Pamplona was made famous by Ernest Hemingway and his 1926 novel "The
Sun Also Rises."