Witnesses described the scene at a Taiwan water park as "hell" after a ball of fire ripped through a crowd, with authorities putting the injured at more than 500 today, almost 200 of them seriously hurt. In picture, a man carries an injured victim
Color Play Asia has also run other "colour parties" in Taiwan in the past two years. Taiwan's premier Mao Chih-kuo, who visited the injured today, ordered that all such events be banned unless their safety could be assured. In this screen grab taken
The water park issued a statement today saying it was "deeply saddened" and would cooperate with the ongoing investigation. In picture, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou shakes hands with a victim.
Lee Lih-jong, deputy chief of the health bureau of the New Taipei City government, said 519 people had been injured with 190 of them seriously hurt
Bystanders poured bottles of water on the scorched skin of the injured. Trails of bloody footprints leading away from the stage remained. Around 1,000 spectators had been at the Color Play Asia event at the Formosa Fun Coast water park, just outside
Ambulances had struggled to reach the scene, and victims were carried away on rubber rings and inflatable dinghies as friends desperately tried to get them out
But their joy turned to terror when the powder suddenly erupted into flames engulfing them in an inferno as they ran screaming for their lives. Some were dressed only in swimwear and images from the scene show many with severe burns being tended by
Horrifying amateur video footage showed crowds of young revellers dancing in front of a stage and cheering as clouds of green and yellow powder covered them at the "colour party".
The injury toll in the blast late Saturday, which came as coloured powder being sprayed on the partygoers ignited, more than doubled as officials began to track down victims who had taken themselves to hospital or been ferried there by others. In