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Organizers Of Pamplona Bull Run Step Up Efforts To Address Sexual Assault Concerns

It's the latest move by festival planners in responding to a scandal that engulfed the festival after an 18-year-old woman was sexually attacked by a gang of five men at the festival in 2016.

The northern Spanish city of Pamplona this weekend opened its famous running of the bulls festival, a nine-day traditional event that draws thousands of spectators who come to watch people dodge bulls bolting down tight streets.

The festival Pamplona's population of nearly 200,000 residents jump to about a million

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