Bull gores 2 brothers at Pamplona run

MADRID, Spain — A bull that broke from the pack seriously gored two American brothers, catching one on each of its horns during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona. Both were recovering Friday in the hospital.

Lawrence and Michael Lenahan were gored simultaneously by the bull, which also injured 11 other people Thursday.

"I started yelling at my brother to show him I was bleeding everywhere, but he showed me he was bleeding everywhere," said Lawrence Lenahan, 26, an Air Force captain from Hermosa Beach, Calif., in a telephone interview from his hospital bed.

He was gored in the buttocks, while Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, suffered a leg injury and was recovering well from surgery at the same hospital.

As he sat in his hospital bed, Lawrence Lenahan posed holding the front page of a Spanish newspaper that showed him and his brother on the horns of the same bull.

He said he remembered using his shirt to help wrap his brother's leg as medical-service staff members arrived to help them.

"I think my brother and I underestimated the speed and danger of it," Lawrence Lenahan said.

Another participant, Christopher Neiff, 24, of Norway, also was injured when the bull's horn tore into his shin and slid under the skin right up to his knee.

"We will definitely be back again," Lawrence Lenahan said. "My brother will never run [in the festival] again, but he would like to come back to celebrate."

The San Fermin festival in Pamplona, renowned for its all-night street parties, dates back to 1591.

It gained worldwide fame in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."

Since records began being kept in 1924, 13 people have been killed in the runs.