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By OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Published: 07:15 EDT, 10 July 2026 | Updated: 07:15 EDT, 10 July 2026

Bull-runners were sent flying into barriers and trampled underfoot as they took part in Pamplona's famous San Fermín festival today.

Dramatic images show runners sprinting through the narrow streets as they are chased by six charging 600kg bulls during the fourth running of this year's festival.

Other photographs capture runners lying on the cobbles desperately trying to shield themselves as bulls thunder past, with one man curling into a ball and covering his face.

Another image shows a runner punching the air as he races just metres ahead of the animals' horns, while another clings to a friend's shoulder as a bull bears down behind him.

A further photograph shows an injured runner being carried away on a stretcher as fellow participants look on.

Participants ran with six bulls during the fourth running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain , on July 10.

Thousands of people attend the week-long festival every year to take part in the famous encierros, in which the bulls are released at 8am to charge from their corral to the bullring along an 850-metre route through the city's old town.

Runners attempt to stay as close to the animals as possible without falling or being gored.

Bull-runners were sent flying into barriers and trampled underfoot as they took part in Pamplona's famous San Fermín festival today

Dramatic images show runners sprinting through the narrow streets as they are chased by six charging 600kg bulls during the fifth running of this year's festival

Other photographs capture runners lying on the cobbles desperately trying to shield themselves as bulls thunder past, with one man curling into a ball and covering his face

Another image shows a runner punching the air as he races just metres ahead of the animals' horns, while another clings to a friend's shoulder as a bull bears down behind him

Participants ran with six bulls during the fifth running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 10

Thousands of people attend the week-long festival every year to take part in the famous encierros, in which the bulls are released at 8am to charge from their corral to the bullring along an 850-metre route through the city's old town

Runners sprint ahead of Alvaro Nunez bulls during the Running of the Bulls at San Fermin Festival

'Mozos' or runners are chased by bulls from the Alvaro Nunez ranch during the fourth running of the bulls

Several 'mozos' or runners are chased by the bulls from the Alvaro Nunez ranch at the entrance of the bullring during the fourth running of the bulls

A participant runs with bulls during the fourth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 10

Emergency team members carry a 'mozo' or runner in a stretcher, after they were gored by a bull

The San Fermín festival is one of Spain's best-known celebrations, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to Pamplona each year.

Alongside the daily bull runs, it features parades, music, religious ceremonies and round-the-clock street festivities.

It gained worldwide fame after Ernest Hemingway featured it in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, which marks its 100th anniversary this year.

At least three people were rushed to hospital on the first proper day of the festival on Tuesday.

Medics confirmed the initial casualty toll this morning 20 minutes after runners risked their lives putting themselves in front of six fighting bulls led by six steers as they sprinted along the half-mile run through the streets of Pamplona’s old town.

The three people taken to hospital, all men, were a 61-year-old American and two Spaniards aged 20 and 34.

The American suffered a head injury but hospital chiefs said this morning it was not serious.

The 20-year-old from Segovia suffered a leg injury and the 34-year-old, from the Basque province of Biscay, an ankle injury.

A fourth person hurt in the bull ring was treated at the scene, with later reports saying a fifth had received medical attention but was not expected to require hospital treatment. There were no gore injuries.

Overnight it emerged a man had died late last night in a bar on Estafeta Street in Pamplona, which forms part of the course.

He collapsed and went into cardiac arrest around 10.30pm. His nationality is not yet known.

He was thought to have been aged around 70. His death at this stage is being linked to natural causes.