Eight more gored by Pamplona bulls
From CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Eight people, including an American and a Frenchman, have been gored on the sixth day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
The American, a 26-year-old from New York who provided the initials M.S., but no name, was gored in the left thigh on the section of the course at city hall plaza on Monday.
The Frenchman, Ludovico de Carlos Garcia, 24, was gored in the right knee on the uphill Santo Domingo section at the beginning of the 800-meter (half-mile) course, soon after the six bulls were released from the corral.
Five of the other six people gored were Spaniards, including three from the Pamplona area.
The identity of the eighth person was not immediately available, a Navarra regional government spokesman told CNN.
One of the Spaniards, Julen Madina from Guipuzcoa Province in the Basque region near Pamplona, was gored five times in the entryway to the bull ring, where a group of runners had fallen into a pile and were attacked by one of the bulls.
Madina was in serious condition, the spokesman said.
Spanish state television's live broadcast of the running and play-by-play announcer Javier Solano described but did not name Madina, and said he was a veteran participant in the annual run.
In addition to the eight people gored, 10 others were injured Monday by falls or stampedes and taken to a hospital.
Among them was an American identified in a government statement as 50-year-old New Yorker Brian White, who suffered a shoulder injury. He was treated and released from the hospital, a Navarra government statement said.
Forty-nine runners, including 15 who were gored and the rest with injuries due to falls or stampeding, have been taken to hospitals since the event began July 7.
The 49 include eight Americans, an Australian, a Frenchman, a South African, someone from Portugal and numerous Spaniards. The run ends July 14.
Pamplona official pamphlets on how to run with the bulls advise runners who fall down to stay on the ground, curl into a small position, and remain still, because the bulls will instinctively try to step over them.
State television's Solano, criticized one of the Spanish runners who was injured Friday, saying he had made a mistake by trying to get up.
On Friday, an American from Louisiana was gored in the left knee on Mercaderes Street.
Another American, from Georgia, was gored in the scrotum, in the bullring, in what the government spokesman said was a "slight injury."
More than a dozen runners have been killed since early last century, when record keeping began.
The last death that occurred during or immediately after the run came in 1995, when a 22-year-old American was killed by one of the bulls.
The running of the bulls in Pamplona started 400 years ago and became popular worldwide after Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in the 1920s.
