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WORLD NEWS Monday 15 July 2019

Pamplona festival

ends with 3 gorings

in final bull run

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — while another man was
A bull broke from the pack gored in the right arm and
and gored two Australians a third in the armpit. The
and a Spaniard during hospital said the wounds
Sunday’s final bull run of were not life- threatening.
this year’s San Fermin fes- The Red Cross reported
tival, health officials from several other injuries from
the northern Spanish city of knocks received from the
Pamplona said. bulls and steers, or from Revellers and a fighting bull arrive at the bullring during the
That took the number of runners tumbling out of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona,
gorings to eight for the way. northern Spain, Sunday, July 14, 2019. Associated Press
eight bull runs that provide The previous seven bull runs red sash make their mad ists staged a performance
a high-adrenaline morning had produced five gorings: dash. simulating speared bulls
rush to the non-stop party three Spaniards and two Sixteen people have died lying dead on Pamplona’s
that draws around 1 million Americans. in the bull runs since 1910. streets to draw attention
people each year. The six bulls from the Miura The last death occurred in to what they see as animal
While five of the bulls stayed breeder, who celebrated 2009. cruelty for the sake of en-
in a group Sunday and the farm’s record-extend- Animal rights protesters tertainment.
charged through the twist- ing 53rd showing at the have also become a fixture Bullfights are protected un-
ing streets with their guid- festival, completed the in Pamplona. On the eve der the Spanish Constitu-
ing steers, one bull drifted 930-yard (850-meter) run to of this year’s festival, doz- tion as part of the country’s
back and provoked havoc the bull ring in 2 minutes, 42 ens of semi-naked activ-
in the crowds of runners. seconds. They will be killed cultural heritage.q
The bull flipped one man at the ring later Sunday.
over its horns and slammed The San Fermin fiesta was
him onto the cobblestone made famous internation-
street. It then clipped an- ally by Ernest Hemingway
other two runners who were in his 1926 novel “The Sun
trapped against a wall. Also Rises.”
Regional hospital spokes- Most revelers stay up all
man Tomás Belzunegui said night or rise early enough
the man who had been to gape from balconies or
tossed by the chocolate- barricades as hundreds of
colored bull named Raba- runners dressed in the tra-
nero was gored in the leg, ditional white outfit with a

Another Canadian

detained in China

amid diplomatic chill

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A ficer of Chinese tech giant
Canadian citizen has been Huawei, was arrested in
detained in Yantai, China, Vancouver on a U.S. arrest
Canada’s government warrant. Meng, who is also
said Saturday, a step that the daughter of Huawei’s
comes amid tense relations founder, is under house ar-
between the countries. rest in her Vancouver man-
Global Affairs Canada did sion. After Meng’s arrest,
not provide details about China detained two Cana-
the identity of the detain- dians, Michael Spavor and
ee, nor the reason for the Michael Kovrig, for alleged
detention. Earlier this week, spying. Their detentions
16 foreign teachers and are believed to be retalia-
students and three Chinese tion for Canada’s arrest of
were arrested on drug al- Meng.
legations in Xuzhou, about China also sentenced an-
370 miles (600 kilometers) other Canadian to death
southwest from the coastal for drug smuggling and
city of Yantai. Global Affairs suspended imports of Ca-
would not say whether the nadian meat products. On
Canadian’s detention was Friday, the British embassy
related to those arrests. said it was providing consul-
Relations between China ar assistance to four British
and Canada chilled in De- citizens who were among
cember when Meng Wan- the teachers and students
zhou, the chief financial of- arrested in Xuzhou.q