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Irish man seriously injured after being gored in chest during Spanish bull run
The Irishman was rushed by ambulance to Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, where he underwent emergency surgery for four hours
An Irishman who was injured during a bull run in Spain on Saturday remains in hospital in a 'serious but stable condition'.
The 43-year-old victim underwent four hours of surgery after he was gored in the chest by the bull during the San Fernando de Henares patron saint festivities near Madrid.
According to local media, the running of the bulls took place at 11am on the Paseo de los Pinos.
'During the run, one of the bulls gored the young man in the chest that was described as 'strong and spectacular' by some witnesses, MiraCorredor reports.
After he was treated at the scene, the Irishman was rushed by ambulance to Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, where he underwent emergency surgery for four hours.
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By late afternoon, he was in the emergency room and was "stable and out of danger' while awaiting transfer to the ward, according to sources quoted by local media.
The victim, described as a 'young man of Irish origin who has lived in Spain for several years' has reportedly suffered head trauma and 'possible retinal detachment' when he was thrown into the aur.
A fan of bull runs, he regularly participates as a runner in these types of bullfights held throughout the country.
Local media reports that San Fernando de Henares City Council has not provided any official information about what happened.
The San Fernando de Henares bull runs are part of a broader celebration of the town's patron saint, San Fernando, and are consider an important part of the local cultural tradition.
In Pamplona, which hosts the famous Running of the Bulls festival in Spain, one man was gored and another five rushed to hospital with trauma injuries last summer.
A 37-year-old man from Beriáin near Pamplona, where the annual festival takes place every July, is believed to have suffered a gore injury to his palate.
The other five casualties included a 54-year-old man from New York. All six runners who needed hospital treatment were men.
since records began in 1910, some 16 people have been killed at the annual festival, which was made famous by 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel, The Sun Also Rises.
The most recent death was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored in the neck by a bull called Capuchino.
Between 200 and 300 are usually injured each year at the festival during the bull runs.
