POWER & GOREY
Pamplona bull run leaves 8 injured with two US tourists and two Australians among gored
EIGHT adrenaline junkies in total have been gored at Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, with three gored in today's final run.
Among the victims, two Aussies and two Americans along with four Spanish runners have fallen prey to the bull's horns.
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The festival's final run, taking place today, saw one Spanish runner and two Aussies receive "non-life threatening injuries", victims were gored in the thigh, armpit and arm.
One man was was flipped over on the horns of an escapee bull named Rabanero, before slamming him onto the cobblestones.
The bull wreaked havoc among runners as they skirted his huge horns - with The Red Cross reporting several other injuries from people tumbling and knocking into the ground as they rushed to dodge the huge beast.
Two more runners - who were trapped against a wall - were clipped by the bull's mighty horns.
The dangerous Running with the Bulls festival draws around 1 million thrill seekers each year, which features a four-minute run down through Pamplona’s cobbled streets as runners are chased by a pack of angry bulls.
The festival runs for nine days, with one run each day.
Three runners were gored in the San Fermin festival's opening run, with five runners in total hospitalised.
A 46-year-old American tourist required surgery after he was gored in the back after completing the run on the festival's first day.
A 19-year-old Spanish woman was gored in the back during the festival's second run, although her injuries didn't require hospital treatment.
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16 people have died in the bull runs since 1910 with the last death occurring in 2009.
Animal rights protesters have also become a fixture in Pamplona, the bulls who run in the morning are killed later that afternoon in bull fights.
The protesters describe the festival as "animal cruelty for the sake of human entertainment," but bullfights are protected under the Spanish Constitution as part of the country's cultural heritage.
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Three people hospitalised at the start of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, northern Spain
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