Adrenalin rush, and fatal crush

Over 1,000 participants packed the narrow cobblestoned streets of Pamplona in Spain during the famous San Fermin bull-running festival that saw a 29-year-old Spainard being gored to death and four others seriously injured as some participants were stampeded by the 590-kg animals.

The nine-day fiesta, which sees bulls completing the 850-m run in about 150 seconds, became world famous with Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and attracts thousands of foreign tourists. In all, 15 people have died from gorings since record-keeping began in 1924. AFP