Jul 10, 2009, 12:11 GMT
Pamplona - A man was killed on Friday at the annual running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, medical services said.
It is the first time since 2003 that a participant in the festival has died.
According to medical sources at the site, the victim - identified as 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno from the Madrid area - received a gore wound to the neck that severed his carotid artery as well as a punctured lung.
Jimeno was taken to hospital, where he died shortly afterwards.
The death was attributed to a bull named Capuccino, which also injured three other participants, including a 24-year-old Argentinian.
Capuccino itself contributed a great deal to panic in the run, breaking early from the herd of six animals and antagonized by a group of inexperienced would-be toreadors.
A total of 76 people were injured in the run, of which nine were hospitalized.
At the festival, which runs until July 14, each morning six bulls are released to run from their corral through the narrow streets of the city to the bullfighting arena. Traditionally hundreds of young men run in front of the bulls, with a rolled-up newspaper as their only permitted defence from the animals' horns.
In 2003 a 62-year-old Spanish man died in the eventm after a fall.
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