Limpa Mahasiswa AS Dibuang karena Ditanduk Banteng di Festival Pamplona
US Student was Gored in Pamplona Bull Run and His Spleen Removed
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
MAHASISWA University of Utah usia 20 tahun terungkap sebagai wisatawan asal Amerika yang ditanduk oleh banteng saat berlangsung Festival Banteng di Pamplona, Spanyol.
Patrick Eccles, mahasiswa fakultas arsitektur dan bisnis, ditanduk di perutnya oleh seekor banteng pada Jumat pagi (12/7) oleh hewan seberat setengah ton. Kejadian tragis sebagai peristiwa mengerikan dari festival tahunan setelah Eccles, asal Logan, terluka parah bersama dua warga Spanyol yang ikut berlari tunggang-langgang dikejar banteng melalui jalan-jalan di Pamplona.
Foto-foto mengerikan menunjukkan wisatawan Amerika, berpakaian putih tradisional dengan syal merah, tertusuk di perut oleh tanduk banteng saat ia berteriak kesakitan.
Eccles mengikuti kuliah di Spanyol tetapi bukan sebagai bagian dari program universitas, seperti dilaporkan Salt Lake Tribune yang dilansir Mail Online.
Menurut website Universitas Utah, Eccles lulus dari Logan High School di mana dia adalah menjadi salah satu pemain dari tim sepak bola.
Dia segera dilarikan ke Rumah Sakit Navarra, dokter mendapati bahwa tanduk banteng menusuk rongga perut dan melukai organ vital. Kondisinya dilaporkan stabil.
Eccles dan seorang warga Amerika lainnya, berusia 48 dan diperkirakan mengalami cedera pada, keduanya kini menjalani perawatan di rumah sakit.
Total enam orang dibawa ke rumah sakit selama berlangsung festival yang berlangsung selama delapan hari.
Mereka adalah korban pertama dari festival tahun ini, hingga lima hari penyelenggaraan festival lari banteng tercatat 15 peserta dilarikan ke rumah sakit.
Warga Spanyol usia 42 tahun lengannya tertusuk pada Jumat, tapi kejadian paling mengerikan terjadi ketika seekor banteng berlari terpisah dan menyerang seorang peserta asal Spanyol, yang kini terbaring tak berdaya setelah ditanduk dan dilempar oleh sang banteng yang mengamuk.
Hewan seberat setengah ton itu menyerang peserta lain berusia 31 tahun dua kali pada pangkal paha dan kaki korban.
Gambar rekaman televisi menunjukkan sang korban dilempar dan begitu tersungkur, sang banteng kembali menyerang dengan tanduk kanan pada kepala korban dan tanduk kiri mengarah pada pangkal paha.
Peserta lain mencoba mengalihkan perhatian banteng yang mengamuk dengan menarik ekornya seraya melambaikan koran. Tapi dia baru berhasil menghalau sang banteng setelah teror yang berlangsung selama setengah menit.
Peserta yang terluka, berasal Castellon, provinsi di timur Spanyol antara Barcelona dan Alicante, kini menjalani operasi darurat. Kondisinya digambarkan sebagai 'serius.'
Korban termasuk pekerja perusahaan gas, John Bennett, 44, dari Wolverhampton di Inggris, yang menderita cedera lutut pada hari pertama festival, Minggu, setelah terinjak-injak oleh peserta lain yang ketakutan dan tunggang-langgang menyelamatkan diri.
Lima belas orang tewas dalam festival tahunan, yang menjadi terkenal setelah ditulis oleh penulis Ernest Hemingway pada 1926 Ernest Hemingway baru, dan tercatat diselenggarakan sejak 1911.
Setiap tahun festival ini menelan korban luka sekitar 200 sampai 300 orang.
Korban tewas terakhir terjadi pada 2009 ketika Daniel Jimeno, 27, dari Madrid, yang ditanduk pada lehernya oleh seekor banteng yang dinamai Capuchino.
Festival ini makin populer setelah banyak warga asing, ikut bergabung dengan penduduk setempat yang mengawalinya dengan begadang dan pesta minuman keras sebelum mengikuti festival yang berawal pada pukul delapan pagi dan diikuti ribuan orang peserta.
Populasi kota Pamplona dari 200 ribu orarng membengkak menjadi sekitar dua juta orang selama festival, yang tercatat sebagai festival terbesar di Spanyol.
Setelah berlarian sepanjang pagi, banteng-banteng tersebut digiring untuk adu banteng hingga tewas.
A 20-YEAR-OLD University of Utah student has been revealed today as the American tourist gored by a bull during the famous Spanish Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona.
Patrick Eccles, who studies architecture and business, was gored in the stomach on Friday morning by the half-ton beast. Today was the bloodiest day of the annual festival after Mr Eccles, from Logan, was seriously injured along with two Spaniards as people ran through the town's cobbled streets being hotly pursued by bulls.
Horrifying pictures show the American tourist, dressed in traditional white with a red scarf, being pierced in the stomach by a bull's horn as he screams in pain.
Mr Eccles was studying abroad in Spain but not as part of a university program, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
According to the Utah University's website graduated from Logan High School where he was a member of the football team.
He was rushed to Navarra Hospital where doctor's discovered that the bull's horn had pierced his abdominal cavity and punctured the organ. His condition was reported as stable.
Mr Eccles and a second American, aged 48 and thought to have suffered head injuries, were both in hospital.
Six people in total were taken to hospital after today's run, the sixth of eight.
The gorings were the first of this year's festival, in which just 15 runners had been taken to hospital over the first five days.
A 42-year-old Spaniard also had his arm punctured on Friday but the most terrifying moments occurred when a lone bull became separated from the pack and attacked a second Spanish runner as he lay helpless on the ground after being mown down by the animal and tripping in front of it.
The half-ton beast gored the 31-year-old twice in the groin and once in the leg.
Dramatic TV pictures showed him being lifted in the air on the animal's horns with his trousers round his ankles.
Other runners tried to distract the animal by grabbing its tail and waving newspapers at it. But a friend was only able to drag him away after more than half a minute of terror.
The injured man, from the eastern Spanish province of Castellon between Barcelona and Alicante, was undergoing an emergency operation this morning.
His condition was described as 'serious.'
They included gas firm worker John Bennett, 44, from Wolverhampton in the UK, who suffered knee injuries on the first run on Sunday after being trampled on by other runners as he fell near the end of the course.
Fifteen people have been killed at the annual festival, made famous by a 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel, since records began in 1911.
Between 200 to 300 people are usually injured each year.
The most recent death was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored in the neck by a bull called Capuchino.
The event has become increasingly popular with foreigners, who join the locals by staying up all night drinking and partying before thousands compete in the 8am run.
Pamplona's population of 200,000 swells to around two million during the festival, the largest in Spain.
After each morning run, the animals are killed in an afternoon bullfight.