In pictures: Running of the Bulls

Tens of thousands of people have flocked to the northern Spanish city of Pamplona to take part in the annual Running of the Bulls, which began on Saturday.

The Running of the Bulls is held during a nine-day festival of San Fermin, and has been celebrated since 1591. Runners wear red neckties during the event.

The event sees six bulls run each day from the outskirts of the city through the narrow streets into the bullring in the centre of the city - preceded by crowds of revellers.

This year, the 0800 start of the run was slightly delayed, to clear rubbish and drunken revellers off the streets. Many were content to watch the action from the sidelines.

The runners darted along crowded, twisting cobbled streets ahead of the bulls.

The event gained international notoriety after author Ernest Hemingway portrayed it in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.

Slips and falls are commonplace as the runners round street corners. Since 1924, 13 people have been killed, the most recent an American tourist who was gored in 1995.

But there were two serious injuries on the first day - an Australian gored in his left buttock, and a Spanish man injured in the shoulder.

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