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Pamplona bull gores two brothers at exactly the same time
By h.b. - Jul 13, 2007 - 6:10 PM
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24 year old Michael Lenahan from the United States, now recovering in hospital in Pamplona - Photo EFE
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The two young Americans were in Pamplona to run with the bulls with a group of four friends
The chances of being gored in the San Fermines bull runs are pretty slim, so the chances of both you and your brother being gored by the same bull at exactly the same time are almost impossible.

But it happened on Thursday morning in the dramatic run when the bull ‘Universal’ was separated from the others from the Marqués de Domecq stud and went after the Lenahan brothers, Michael and Lawrence, from Philadelphia in the United States.

Both men are now recovering in hospital and local papers clearly show photos of the bull with each one of the brothers impaled on each horn.

24 year old Michael told Telecinco television that there’s no way that he would run the streets of Pamplona again, but his older brother had told him he was ready for another go.

The two had decided to go to Pamplona with a group of four other friends to celebrate the younger brother overcoming cancer.


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