Two gored to death in bull festival
INZPA-Reuter Pamplona Spain’s annual festival of drinking, dancing and bull taunting turned bloody yesterday ,as a 550 kg fighting bull charged into runners jammed together and gored two of them to death.
Three other runners among the more than 2000 young Spaniards and foreigners running ahead of six fighting bulls through Pamplona’s narrow streets also were gored and taken to hospital. The two dead were Spaniards. City officials reported several other runners bruised and trampled in the next-to-last day of the week-long festival. They described the course from the corrals to the bull ring as unusually crowded with runners.
The first fatal goring came when the bull “Antioquia” hooked Jose Antonio Sanchez Navascues. aged 24, in the abdomen as
JR. . wJL y wRJR he passed city hall, about! one third of the way along! the 800 m course. Sanchez died two hours! [later in hospital. Separated from the. other; bulls, Antioquia then] slammed into a pack of run-i ners jammed at the entrance, to the bull ring, injuring] Vicente Ladio Risco, aged I 29, who died minutes later on the bull ring operating! table. The deaths were the fiftysixth and fifty-seventh on record since the festival began in 1591, and the' eleventh and twelfth this! century. I The festival was popularised internationally in the 1920 s by the American writer Ernest Hemingway Tn his book “The Sun Also Rises.” Yesterday’s second fatal! goring took place just a few! metres away from a bust of: Hemingway outside thej Pamplona bull ring. :
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