More than 500 people injured in water park nightclub
explosion
MORE than 500 revellers have been injured – mostly burns – in
an explosion at a water park nightclub.
The blast happened
on the stage of a packed outdoor nightclub arena at Formosa Fun
Coast water park in Taiwan and spread to the dancefloor.
Revellers
were engulfed in flames and fled on fire.
Burned
victims were carried away from the music arena on inflatable rubber rings by
park lifeguards and others.
Taipei
health official Lee Lih-jong said 509 people were injured and 188 of those were
serious.
The
fire broke out at about 8.30pm local time and was quickly brought under
control.
The
cause of the fire is yet to be determined but flammable coloured powder was
thrown into the air by the blast.
Several
victims, some of whom suffered burns over 40 percent of their bodies, were sent
to the Mackay Memorial Hospital in Tamsui, the Chang Kung Memorial Hospital in
Linkou and the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Tienmu, Taipei City, for
emergency treatment.
A lot of injured
people were still waiting at the park for treatment.
The
park was hosting a Color Play Asia party – billed as the continent's largest –
when the accident took place.
It
sees 4,000 guests don goggles and white T-shirts to get covered in coloured
powder.
Staff
use modified paintball guns to fire bursts of powder at partygoers and
revellers are sold packets they can burst and throw at one another.
Some
people attending the party posted on Facebook that after a large volume of the
mystery powder spewed out into the air and "the fire began".
Structure of the Lead:
WHO-
Formosa
Fun Coast water park
WHAT-
explosion
WHY-
flammable
coloured powder was thrown into the air by the blast
WHERE-
Taipei
HOW-
sent to the hospital
Keywords:
1.
blast 爆炸
2.
arena 場所
3.
dancefloor 舞池
4.
revelers 尋歡作樂的人
5.
engulf 吞沒
6.
fled 逃離
7.
inflatable rubber rings 充氣橡膠圈
8.
flammable 易燃的
