Two Londoners gored in Pamplona bull run

Two Londoners were today gored by a rampaging bull called Runaway at Spain’s Pamplona festival.

The half-ton beast turned on them after becoming separated from the main herd at the annual running of the bulls. Insurance worker Liam Tarff, 29, from Brixton, was gored in the left thigh and fellow Briton Nick Couchman, a 20-year-old events organiser, in the right thigh.

Mr Tarff, who managed a thumbs-up to the crowd as he was carried away on a stretcher, said: “It was a feeling of sheer panic when I saw the bull stop, turn round and run towards me. I was trapped against the barriers with people crowded around me and no fast way out. I felt its horn go through my leg. It was like being stabbed with a large knife. I fell to the ground and managed to crawl under the barrier.

“I only did the run for a friend who’s celebrating his 30th birthday and dreamed of taking part. If the bull’s horn had gone in a few inches higher through somewhere like my heart, I probably would not have been around to tell the tale.”

Today’s 850-metre run lasted just over three and a half minutes and was the bloodiest of the three so far with an American also being gored. A 73-year-old local was the only person gored in the first two runs.