Spain: 2 gored in Monday’s Pamplona bull run

Red Cross spokesman Alfonso Contin said initial reports indicated a possible broken arm in the bull run, but the injury to a 22-year-old Spaniard from the northwestern city of Oviedo was later confirmed to be a shoulder dislocation.

No one was gored Sunday in the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, emergency services officials said.

Normally six bulls run in the San Fermin festival, but on this occasion Curioso – a 1,180-pound (535-kilogram) beast belonging to the Jose Escolar breeding ranch – later had to be transported to the ring to join the other five. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight days of the running of the bulls.

The nine-day fiesta was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”.

A Philadelphia resident gored by a bull on Saturday during a running in Spain was one of a handful of those injured during a festival, according to reports.

The run goes from a holding pen on the edge of Pamplona to the central bullring where the bulls participate in traditional bullfights with matadors. Monday’s dash lasted 2 minutes, 12 seconds.

In all, 15 people have died from gorings in Pamplona since record-keeping began in 1924 for the San Fermin festival.