Four people, including an on-duty policeman, were gored by bulls on the fifth day of the bull-running festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona on Monday

Every morning from July 7 to 14 six half-tonne bulls are released into Pamplona's historic centre where thousands of thrill-seekers, many from the United States and Australia, pack the cobbled streets to run with them

Monday's run was the most violent this year as a bull separated from the herd and charged at several members of the crowd

One man was trapped between a wall and bull's horns for several seconds as fellow runners hit the huge beast and tried to pull him off by his tail
The man finally escaped and the bull carried on its way through the adrenalin-pumped crowd to the bull ring where it tossed a Colombian runner, Anibal Agudero, 32, and ripped a 14cm gash in his thigh

State radio said a 41-year-old police sergeant was gored as he tried to warn the crowd that the last bull had turned back and was heading down the course the wrong way

Spaniards Xavier Salillas and Jesus Angel Merino were also gored in the thigh, a note on the festival's Web site said

Ernest Hemingway's 1920s novel "The Sun Also Rises" made the fiesta famous and hundreds of Americans and Australians come each year

Fifteen people have died running with the bulls in Pamplona since 1910, most from being gored
No one has been gored to death this year but two people died at the weekend when they fell from the city walls
The bodies of a 24-year-old American man from Louisiana, whose name was given as Joseph R.L., and a Spanish woman, were found in the river, a Government spokesman said

Seven more people were badly hurt in the stampede of bulls through the streets on Monday, officials said
One man was grazed by a bull's horn and 24-year-old Christopher Seaton from Florida, broke his wrist
The other injuries included skull trauma and fractures, the note said

It took more than five minutes to herd all the bulls down the 825 metre route into the bullring - where they face a matador's cape and sword in the evening - instead of the usual two or three minutes