This morning marked the penultimate running of the bulls in Spain's storied San Fermin Festival, and it turned bloody quickly, with 23 revelers in Pamplona injured in a pileup of bulls and humans outside the bull ring. As the AP reports, dozens of falling runners clogged the ring's narrow entrance, prompting one bull to charge them and two steers to jump over. Officials scrambled to open a side door normally used by matadors, in order to let the bulls through. "We all know that alley is a funnel and a critically dangerous point at the entrance to the ring," says an Interior Ministry official. "Pileups there are one of the biggest risks that can occur in the running of the bulls."
Two people were gored (one in the butt, another in the armpit), and one man's thorax was crushed, while another suffered asphyxia in the melee. "It is a very grave situation. He's in a stable condition, but it's very serious," said a health official of the thorax injury. The toll further included a spectator who suffered a heart attack, and today's events come in the wake of three people being gored yesterday. (The AP has the gory video here.) Pamplona wraps up tomorrow; no one has died since 2009. (More Pamplona stories.)
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