PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) - Two foreign tourists, one from Canada and one from Norway, were gored by stampeding bulls on Friday in the seventh day of Pamplona's world-famous running of the bulls festival.
A 28-year-old man from Toronto was wounded in his left thigh and a 35-year-old Norwegian was gored in the right knee, the Navarre regional government said. Neither of the injuries was life-threatening.
Five other runners were hurt, including a 30-year-old Pamplona resident who was in serious condition with head injuries after he took a fall.
The early morning bull run is the highlight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, which attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.
Hundreds of runners, many of them foreigners, join in the 825-meter (half-mile) dash through city streets from a corral to the bull ring, running ahead of six fighting bulls that will be killed by matadors in the evening bull fight.
The fiesta was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel ``The Sun Also Rises.''
Several people have been gored this week but none has suffered life-threatening injuries. The last death during the fiesta came in 1995, when a 22-year-old American was gored through the stomach.
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