week 3-八仙塵爆

Taiwan Formosa Water Park explosion injures hundreds

Saturday's incident at the Formosa Water Park is believed to have happened when a colored powder ignited after being  onto the crowd.

Footage showed people panicking and screaming. Inflatable water toys were shown being used as stretchers.

Some 190 people are seriously hurt - 182 are in intensive care.

Some of them breathed in the powder, causing respiratory problems.

Local media said organiser of the Color Play Asia event had been taken in for questioning by prosecutors.

Skin 'gone'

Footage of the incident shows a party in full swing when suddenly fire erupts.

It was "hell", a male student who sustained minor injuries said, according to AFP news agency.

"There was blood everywhere, including in the pool where lots of the injured were soaking themselves for relief from the pain."

His girlfriend added: "I saw lots of people whose skin was gone."The fire was quickly brought under control, but the cause of the incident is still under investigation.

The authorities believe something that caught fire caused the coloured powder spray or dust - used to create a party atmosphere - to explode.

The substance is also used in other countries. It is made of dried corn and can be highly flammable, our correspondent says.

The 519 victims were sent to 41 hospitals, and 413 are still in hospital, say municipal authorities.

The incident occurred about 20:30 (12:30 GMT). More than 1,000 people were near the stage at the time.

The fire department said: "Our initial understanding is this explosion and fire... was caused by the powder spray. It could have been due to the heat of the lights on the stage".

Soaring temperatures

Many people flocked to water parks on Saturday as temperatures reached 36.6C (98F) in Taipei and as high as 38C in other parts of Taiwan, says the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.

New Taipei City's mayor, Eric Chu, ordered an immediate shutdown of the water park pending an investigation.

Taiwan has suffered a series of deadly fires in the past couple of years due partly to poor enforcement of building and fire safety codes and illegal construction, our correspondent adds.

A fire earlier this year killed six firefighters, prompting orders to rectify illegally constructed buildings and upgrade firefighters' equipment and training.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33300970

Structure of the Lead：

      WHO-crowd

      WHEN-Saturday

      WHAT-explosion

      WHY-colored powder ignited

      WHERE-Formosa Water Park

      HOW-being discharged onto the crowd


Keywords：
1. organiser ：組織者
2.ignited：點燃
3.discharge：放
4.Inflatable：充氣
5.stretchers：擔架
6.respiratory：呼吸
7. AFP：新法社
8.flammable：易燃的
9.substance：物質
10.pending：待定

week2-割喉案

Man slices 8-year-old schoolgirl's throat

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- An 8-year-old school girl surnamed Liu yesterday sustained a severe injury to her neck when a 29 year-old man named Kung Chung-an assaulted her with a knife within the premises of the victim's school, yesterday.

The assault took place at around 4:30 p.m. after classes ended at Taipei Municipal Beitou District Wenhua Elementary School , yesterday.

Reportedly, Liu had stayed after school hours to participate in extracurricular music activities.

According to the victim's club instructor, Liu had left practice to go to the bathroom without notifying instructors.

After leaving the classroom, Liu was targeted by Kung, who had entered school grounds without authorization. Kung then allegedly tailed the victim to a restroom located on the fourth floor of the school, where he slashed the victim's throat twice with a fruit knife he had brought from his home.

The victim was reportedly found by chance when girls from the school reported the incident to school officials after seeing blood coming from under the bathroom door.

The victim was rushed to the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, though at 5:05 p.m. she showed no signs of life.

Doctors, however, were able to get her heart started again, though the victim remains in a comatose state, with possible brain damage.

Doctors who worked to save Liu told local press that the victim sustained at least one 10-centimeter cut to her throat. Liu's doctors also said that her trachea, neck artery and neck muscles were severed due to the savage nature of the attack.


Reconstructive surgery to treat Liu's heavy wounds were completed after three hours, and her vital signs showed signs of stabilizing. However, doctors said that Liu is not yet out of danger, with the severity of her coma unknown due to the large amount of anesthetics being administered.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2015/05/30/437219/Man-slices.htm

Structure of the Lead：

      WHO-8-year-old school girl

      WHEN-5/29

      WHAT-throat cut

      WHY-not giving

      WHERE-Taipei Municipal Beitou District Wenhua Elementary School

      HOW-not giving

Keywords：

1.premise：前提

2.extracurricular：課外

3.notifying：通知

4.authorization：授權

5.slashed：砍
6.comatose：昏睡的
7.sustained：持續
8.trachea：氣管
9.stabilizing：穩定

10.anesthetics：麻醉藥