A STUDENT from Manchester University has described how he escaped with his life after being gored in the leg during the running of the bulls at Spain's annual Pamplona festival.

Speaking from his bed at the Virgen del Camino Hospital, Alex Short, 20, told how he was separated from his friends and unable to flee.

"One of the bulls decided to go the wrong way and everyone was trying to get out of the way," he said.

"I saw people running the wrong way and realised that something was really wrong.

"But then I couldn't jump over the barrier fast enough and the bull gored me in my left leg and then flipped me and landed me on the ground.

Blacked out

"I hit my head and blacked out, but then I must have come round, because I managed to run to the side.

"A lad next to me grabbed the bull by its head, but he was gored by it too."

Alex, from Watford, who is studying geography at Manchester, was on holiday in Spain with six friends.

He had attended two bull runs in Pamplona already this week and was due to fly home to England from Bilbao.

Pumped

But he expects to be kept in hospital until Tuesday in case his wound - which he described as 'a horn-sized puncture' - becomes infected.

He said: "I can't believe what happened, and that the bull chose me over umpteen other people to gore. But it was all so fast and you're so pumped up with adrenalin.

"I didn't feel a thing - no pain whatsoever."

A Spanish man, Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, from Madrid, was gored to death at the event. Eight others were injured.