Today’s San Fermines run was the fourth of this 12 months’s occasion in Spain and ended with seven individuals being taken to hospital. One was a 60-year-old man from Wales, native officers confirmed. They mentioned he was from Cardiff and had suffered a trauma damage which they have been nonetheless “evaluating” this morning.

The incident which led to him being taken to hospital happened within the bullring on the finish of the half-mile course.

He has not been totally named and has solely been recognized by his initials - B.H.

The nine-day competition - identified in Spain as San Fermin - kicked off final Thursday at noon with the normal ‘chupinazo’.

Revellers sporting conventional pink and white have been rapidly soaked in sangria because the occasion acquired underway.

The eight morning runs, known as encierros in Spanish, kind the spotlight of the competition.

Most revellers social gathering all day - and sometimes all night time - with many getting little sleep and generally none in any respect earlier than watching the 8am encierros behind the security of picket limitations.

Sixteen individuals have been killed on the annual competition, which finishes on July 14 and was made well-known by 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’, since information started in 1910.

The most up-to-date dying was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored within the neck by a bull known as Capuchino.

Several foreigners, from Australians to Americans by means of to

Brits and Irish, are usually among the many injured.

The solely individual gored at this 12 months’s competition to date has been a 48-year-old man from the jap Spanish province of Castellon.