American, Spaniard gored at Spain’s San Fermin

Revelers run in front of a Victoriano del Rio ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Revelers from around the world arrive in Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) Revelers run in front of a Victoriano del Rio ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Revelers from around the world arrive in Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

By Associated Press July 9, 2014 2 min read

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) – Fighting bulls gored an American and a Spaniard in a hair-raising third running of the bulls Wednesday at Spain’s San Fermin festival.

A Navarra regional government statement said the American, a 32-year-old from Chicago identified only by his initials B.H., was gored in the right thigh. It said the injury was serious but not life-threatening.

British journalist Alexander Fiske-Harrison said the American was his friend and co-author Bill Hillmann, a longtime Pamplona bull-runner who has written about the festival. Hillmann underwent surgery “but he is doing well,” Fiske-Harrison wrote on his blog.

In addition, a 35-year-old Spaniard with the initials J.R.P was in serious condition after being gored in the chest, the government statement said.

Three other Spaniards who fell during the run were being treated in Pamplona hospitals for their injuries.