Man gored to death in Pamplona bull run

A man was gored to death today during the traditional bull-running festival in Pamplona, northern Spain.

The animal gored the man's lungs and the back of his neck during the fourth bull run of this year's San Fermín Festival.

A London man, aged 20, was also gored in his left thigh and two others were injured.

The death occurred when a light brown bull named Capuchino broke away from the main pack of bulls and careered into a group of runners and spectators. The victim has not been named, but is thought to be Spanish.

Paramedics tried to revive him in the street before taking him to hospital, where he died shortly after undergoing emergency surgery.

Television footage showed a bull flipping a man, then goring him as he lay curled in a ball on the ground.

Experienced runners tried to distract the animal by pulling its tail and smacking it with sticks.

Pamplona is famed worldwide for its annual running of the bulls event, which takes place as part of the nine-day festival. The bulls are herded along the city's cobbled streets to the bullring, where they are killed in the evening. Fifteen people have died at the festival since 1911. The last was in 1995, when an American man was gored.