TAIPEI: Thirty-three people, including a badly-burnt six-year-old girl, needed medical treatment after fireworks at a major festival in Taiwan accidentally shot into a crowd of revellers, officials said on Monday. Sunday evening’s incident was the first time there had been any injuries in the 21-year history of the Taiwan Lantern Festival, taking place this year in the southern city of Chiayi. “A six-year-old girl is being treated in an intensive care unit,” Chang Shu-hui, an official at the Changhua Christian Hospital, told AFP. She said four other people were also hospitalised. “Our understanding is that the air caused some of the fireworks to be set off at a different angle from the one originally intended,” a spokeswoman for Chiayi city said.