Bulls trample tourists in Pamplona

Many people have been trampled during this year's Pamplona festival

PAMPLONA, Spain -- More foreign tourists have been injured during the annual bull running festival in Pamplona.

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 on Friday.

Neither of the injuries was life-threatening.

The pair were among seven people gored by stampeding bulls on Friday in the seventh day of the festival in northwestern Spain.

Among the other five was a 30-year-old local man said to be in a serious condition with head injuries after falling.

On Thursday two Australians and three Spaniards were among those injured trampled by stampeding bulls.

The early morning bull run is the highlight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.

Hundreds of runners, many of them foreigners, join in the 825-metre (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 immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

Several people have been gored this week, although the worst injuries came last Saturday when six people were badly gored.

At least 13 people have been killed in the runs since 1924.

The last death during the fiesta came in 1995, when a 22-year-old American was gored through the stomach.