Update from Pamplona

Just one goring? The festival isn't over yet however, there's still 4 more runnings planned, so someone being violently trampled isn't out of the question.

Man gored in Pamplona's running of the bulls
10/07/2006 - 08:17:43 One man was gored in the leg as hundreds of thrill-seekers ran alongside massive bulls through the streets of Pamplona in Spain today. A scene from the bull run is pictured.

One man was gored in the leg as hundreds of thrill-seekers ran alongside massive bulls through the streets of Pamplona in Spain today.

In the fourth of eight planned runs at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival, six bulls charged along the 800-metre route leading to the bull ring in just over two minutes with only one incident where a leading bull caught a man.

Emergency services were called to the cobblestone streets after the bulls had run past, but the severity of the injury was not immediately known.

Preliminary Red Cross information said one young man was gored in the leg and several suffered bruises and sprains.

The worst injury so far this year came on the opening day when an American man was left partially paralysed in a side event after the run. He was thrown by one of five feisty young cows set free in the Pamplona bull ring for people to taunt and dodge.

He has been identified as Ray Ducharme, a 31-year-old bond trader for Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Since record-keeping began in 1924, 13 people have been killed during the runs. The last death was in 1995.