A 20-year-old woman died today from injuries she suffered in an explosion and fire at a party in a Taiwan amusement park, reports said.

A flammable powder exploded and a concert stage caught fire at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei on Saturday where about 1,000 people were participating in a dance party.

The coloured powder had been sprayed over the crowd.

Li Pei-yun, 20, was sent to hospital with burns covering 90 percent of her body, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported. She died this morning in a hospital in central Taiwan, the agency said.

According to the Apple Daily , Li went to the party with her 12-year-old brother, who also suffered severe burns and remains in intensive care in Taipei.

“For patients who suffer severe burns, the real challenge is dealing with the infection in the following days,” said Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je.

The Health and Welfare Ministry said that as of 9am local time today, the number of people injured in the accident was 499, while about 211 were in intensive care. The injured were being treated at 49 hospitals around Taiwan.

The Health and Welfare Ministry has begun coordinating resources for skin transplants and other emergency medical supplies, adding that there are ample medical resources for follow-up treatment, the cabinet said in a statement.

Four medical centres have been asked to provide donor skin for emergency use. The Kaohsiung city government in southern Taiwan said yesterday it was ready to deliver cadaver skins to hospitals in northern Taiwan that are treating people injured in the accident, the Central News Agency said.

The cabinet late yesterday set up a task force to deal with the incident.

The cabinet said it would help the students and workers among the injured with follow-up medical care, schooling and employment matters. It confirmed that 205 students from 71 schools were injured in the accident.

- dpa