Eyewitness to death in Pamplona bull run

A Spaniard has been gored to death at a bull running festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona. Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, was gored in the neck after an animal released as part of the annual Running of the Bulls event veered into a group of runners, a Navarre regional government official said. The identification of the dead man contradicted earlier reports that the victim may have been British. Television images showed a bull flipping a man dressed in white trousers and a green shirt and then goring him as he lay curled on the ground, while fellow runners tried to distract the animal by pulling on its tail and hitting it with sticks. Another three runners were also injured. The 1,130lb (512kg) bull, called Cappuccino, fell early in the run and ended up on its own. As it reached a stretch outside the bullring, it started charging right and left as runners scrambled for safety. At one point it picked up another man with its horns and flipped him into the air. The bull kept after him as he lay curled up on the ground, covering his face. But the man got up and ran away and was apparently not seriously hurt. Fifteen people have now died at the Fiesta of San Fermin in northern Spain since record-keeping began in 1924. Hundreds of runners from around the world participate in the week-long fiesta, often drinking all night before the early morning run through the streets in front of bulls rushing to the bull ring. This was the the first fatal goring at the event - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway in his novel The Sun Also Rises - since 1995, when 22-year-old American Matthew Tassio was killed.

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ITN | July 10, 2009

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