Madrid (CNN) – Half a dozen people, including a 30-year-old man from the American city of Atlanta, were taken to hospital after the first closure in three years began in Pamplona.
None of the six were horned by a bull during the race, the Navarrese government’s press office told CNN on Thursday.
The American suffered a fractured left arm, while the other five injured, four men and a 16-year-old woman, all Spaniards, were taken to hospital with various injuries, the press office reported.
Festivities race during the San Fermí de Pamplona festivities on July 7.
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The first Sant Fermí festival since 2019 began on Wednesday, which attracted a large crowd to the streets of the Spanish city.
Thousands of people have gathered in front of the City of Pamplona on the occasion of the opening of the celebration of nine days, very popular with tourists. The annual festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thursday was the first day of the bullfight, a tradition that goes back centuries and made Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises”, also published under the title “Fiesta”, world famous.
Thousands of people have attended the emblematic party in Pamplona, which began on Wednesday.
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The controversial event has long provoked criticism from animal rights activists, and on Tuesday dozens of demonstrations were seen in Pamplona in dinosaur costumes.
At least 39 were injured at the festival, with three horns, in 2019
The bullfight continues at 8 a.m. local time until July 14.
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