July 9, Friday _PAMPLONA-IRUÑA, San Fermin 1999. Very dangerous running One isolated bull creates big difficulties in today's encierro

The fiesta's third running of the bull was a very dangerous one. It lasted for 4 minutes an 41 seconds. the bulls run in a pack until Ayuntamiento and did not create too much trouble to the runners, but at the end of Santo Domingo one of the bulls fell behind with the rest of the pack and started to make for the fences where some spectators got a good scare. This bull has run alone the rest of the runway and turned round several times. At the end it has been carried to the pens in the Arena by some expert runners.

The injured

Igor Alvarez Martínez, from Leioa (Bizkaia),  gored in the left tight and taken to Hospital Virgen del Camino.

Justin Harmmerback, 32 y.o. (Chicago, USA), gored in the buttock.

Gored, Minor injuries:

Juan Carlos Ardilla Pellizari, 29 y.o. (Barañain, Navarre), wounded in the knee (Hospital de Navarra).

Matthew Redden, Australia, 22 y.o., right tight (Hospital de Navarra).

Robert Stodola wounded in the right elbow (Hospital de Navarra).

Roberto Mercero Igoa, Pamplona, 27 y.o., right tight (Hospital Virgen del Camino).

Other injuries (not gored)

Nelson Douglas, USA, ankle (Hospital de Navarra).

Koldo Salas Giralt, 17 y.o. lumbar bruises (Hospital de Navarra).

Modesto Viejo Rebordinos, Zamora, 44 y.o., clavicle frature (Hospital de Virgen del Camino).

G.P.M., Murcia, 28 y.o., mandible dislocation

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