PAMPLONA, Spain Bulls roughed up seven people Sunday as they thundered on the ground the rain-slicked cobblestone streets of Pamplona during the weeklong San Fermin festival, officials said.

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Sunday’s run - the seventh of the festival - featured six massive Miura bulls, traditionally the largest and fastest-running fighting bulls bred in Spain. Many of those running alongside the bulls had to plunge according to include as the pack neared during the half-mile stretch from corral to the bullring, with some crushed, cut and bruised.

One man was smashed against a awkward splinter hindrance as the bulls rounded a bend on the course and skidded sideways into him. Another escaped a goring when he fell just in brow of the charging animals.

Seven race were taken to Pamplona’s two hospitals, including one with multiple injuries and three by chest injuries, before-mentioned Dr. Ignacio Yurss, director of the Navarra Hospital in Pamplona.

A man from Scotland who suffered a cranium injury was among the seven hurt Sunday. The rest were Spaniards, a local Navarra government statement said. None were gored.

The runs to the bullring from stables condign outside the city’s northern medieval walls smite place at 8 a.m. daily and are the highlight of festivities made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.”

About half a dozen people running with the bulls have been gored so far, none seriously. A 26-year-old Colombian gored Saturday was recovering well after surgery, Dr. Yurss said.

Fourteen runners have died in the running of the bulls because witness keeping began in 1924. The last somebody to die of a goring was a 22-year-old American, Matthew Tassio, in 1995.

Weekend mob are always the largest, and Miuras are reserved for the Sunday bullfights. The final run is Monday.

The Miuras counterbalance betwixt 1,350 and 1,500 pounds and are due to be fought and killed in the afternoon by professional matadors in Pamplona’s bullring.

The festival in this ancient arctic city, also known for its all-night public way parties, dates back to the late 16th century.


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