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Man gored to death in Pamplona run

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Published: July 10, 2009 at 7:45 AM

PAMPLONA, Spain, July 10 (UPI) -- A man participating in Spain's famed running of the bulls was gored to death Friday when a bull broke free from the pack and charged a crowd, officials said.

The man was gored in the neck and lung as he ran through the cobbled streets of Pamplona in northern Spain, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.

"He is dead. He had been hit by a horn that punctured a lung," a spokesman for organizers of the San Fermin festival confirmed.

Nine other revelers were injured, hospital officials said.

Friday's run was the fourth of eight conducted during the festival, made famous by U.S. author Ernest Hemingway in his novel, "The Sun Also Rises."

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