5 hurt in year's last Spanish bull run

A pack of steers and fighting bulls injured five people on their last run through the streets of Pamplona Monday in a relatively safe end to the weeklong San Fermin festival.

No one was gored but injuries included a fractured collar bone and hand and groin injuries, said Dr. Ignacio Yurs, director of Navarra Hospital.

The six fighting bulls and six steers stayed together for much of the last of their eight runs through the cobblestone streets, which made it safer.

Some of the bulls fell and piles of fallen humans formed at several stages, but the run was largely smooth.

One man was knocked down as he ran next to the pack about halfway through the half-mile (850 meter) course and only narrowly missed getting trampled in the head by a brown-and-white steer.

Seven people were hurt in Sunday's run, including three with chest injuries and one with multiple injuries. A man from Scotland suffered a skull injury. None were gored.

The runs to the bullring from stables just outside the city's northern medieval walls take place at 8 a.m. daily and are the highlight of festivities made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."

About a half-dozen people running with the bulls have been gored so far, none seriously. A 26-year-old Colombian gored Saturday was recovering well after surgery,

Fourteen people have died in the running of the bulls since record-keeping began in 1924.

The last fatality from a goring was a 22-year-old American, Matthew Tassio, in 1995. In 2003, a 63-year-old Pamplona native, Fermin Etxeberri, was trampled in the head by a bull and died after spending several months in a coma.