Spanish celebrate end of Covid lockdown by running with bulls as hair raising race returns

SPANIARDS have celebrated the end of their Covid lockdown by running with bulls as the hair raising race returns for the first time in months.

Residents flocked to a small village in Navarra in the first Running of the Bulls race since the beginning of the pandemic.


Participants are expected to dodge the bulls and get into the city centre.

Images from the spectable show locals frantically running through the street of Tafalla as they tried to evade several raging bulls.

Some weren't so lucky and were either clipped or bulldozed by the ferocious animals.

Enrique Maya, the Mayor of Pamplona, had previously cancelled the event over Covid concerns.

The Running of the Bulls is part of an annual festival in San Fermin where six bulls are released into the cobbled streets of Pamplona.

The festival is meant to honour the patron saint of Pamplona.

This year's race included two bull runs (Saturday and Sunday), which kicked off at 9am, according to Diario De Navarra.

In one race, a bull slipped and ran into a fence while in a separate incident, a young man was transferred to hospital with a head injury, the local news outlet reported.

It's believed the man climbed a fence hoping to avoid being hit with he slipped and fell on his head.

The Red Cross treated another two people: one who had their foot stomped on and another with a sprained ankle.

On Thursday, the 14-day cumulative average of Covid cases per 100,000 in Spain was 43.2, according to the MailOnline.

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