A MAN was taken to hospital after being trampled by a bull in Spain.
The 39-year-old from Dewsbury suffered head injuries after falling over and getting trampled by the 500kg bull at the famous San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, yesterday.
Another British man was also hurt when he was gored in the left thigh by a bull.
It was the third run of the nine-day long fiesta but it was raining on the cobbled streets of the old quarter in Pamplona which may have made the path slippy.
Six bulls weighing 500kgs each were charged through the 930-yard course into the city’s bullring alongside thousands of runners.
Images broadcast on Spanish TV showed several people being tossed into the air by bulls as they stampeded through the city in northern Spain.
The San Fermin festival, which takes place between July 6 and 14, was featured in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises.
People dress in white with red sashes and neckerchiefs to take part in the fiesta, famed for its all-night drinking.
Each morning during the festival daredevil party-goers risk their lives running with the bulls through the streets to the bull ring in Pamplona’s centre.
Once the bull is in the ring there is a bullfight and the animal is killed and the meat served in local restaurants.
In recent years many tourists have been harmed taking part in the festivties.Complaints have been made that some runners get too drunk and make it more dangerous for the other runners.
Last year was the first time in 15 years that a man died after being gored by a bull.
