Decked out in white with red neckerchiefs, usually after a night of heavy drinking, the bull runners raced the toros on day one of the San Fermin week-long festival in Pamplona, northern Spain.<br /><br />The 850-metre run from holding pen to the city bull ring, took just 2 minutes and 25 seconds.<br /><br />The Red Cross said four people were taken to hospital with minor injuries. <br /><br />The event is imortalised in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’. <br /><br />The bulls taking part are killed by matadors in the evening and the meat distributed to restaurants across the city.<br /><br />Fifteen people have lost their lives since records began in 1924.
