A NORTH-EAST tourist has been gored while taking part in a world-famous bull run in Spain.

Daniel Earl, 24, from Yarm, near Stockton, is said to be in a serious condition in hospital after the animal rammed its horns into his groin.

Mr Earl was taking part in the eighth and final bull run of the Pamplona Festival, in northern Spain, yesterday when he was injured.

He was one of four people who were struck by the horns of a bull while a number of others were hurt in falls as they raced through the narrow cobbled streets of the city pursued by the animals.

The news came as another British tourist was pictured in his Newcastle United top taking part in the final bull run.

It is not known whether the two men were at the event together.

The run took more than four minutes to complete.

There have been 11 foreigners injured during bull runs this year – four from Britain, two from Ireland and one each from Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and the US. The overall number injured is 37.

The British Embassy this year posted a warning telling Britons to seriously consider the risks if they join in the bull runs, which were immortalised by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

On each day of the festival, six bulls are released in the morning to run from their corral over an 846-metre course to the bull ring where they face matadors in the afternoon.

The runs are the highlight of a nine-day festival, which also features all-night partying and attracts tens of thousands of people, many from overseas.

The bull runs have claimed 15 lives since 1911 and each year dozens of runners are injured.

The most recent death occurred last year when a bull gored a 27-year-old Spaniard to death, piercing his neck, heart and lungs with its horns in front of the hordes of tourists.

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