Bulls Run Faster Than Usual in Pamplona, 5 Hurt Getting Out of the Way

A faster than usual group of bulls raced through the half-mile path in Pamplona on the third day of the San Fermin festival Thursday, and while no one was gored, five people suffered slight injuries getting out of the way.

The six bulls usually take a little over three minutes to make the run, but on Thursday they must have been fired up, because they did it in just two minutes and 20 seconds. That left people scrambling to get out of the way, and five got bumps and bruises as they fell, ran into each other or ran into walls getting out of the way. In a couple of instances bulls ran over people who were on the ground, but the bulls did not step directly on anyone.

No one has been gored or seriously injured in a trampling this year. The last person to die in a goring at Pamplona was Matthew Tassio, a 22-year-old American and University of Illinois student, in 1995. The last person to die in a trampling was Fermin Etxeberri, a 63-year-old Pamplona native, in 2003.