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| Indian sisters attacked with acid |
| 2013-04-04 |
| [Al Jizz] An acid attack has left four sisters in north India with burns in a particularly brutal example of what is a growing problem in South Asia, according to police. The youngest sister, 19, was admitted to hospital with severe injuries after two men on a cycle of violence splashed them with acid on Tuesday evening in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, about 100km from the capital. The sisters, aged between 19 and 24, were returning home from a government school where three of them work as teachers. The fourth is a student. "The victims were walking together when two men on a motorbike made lewd remarks and the man who was riding pillion splashed acid on all of them," said Abdul Hameed, the senior police officer investigating the case. "The youngest sister suffered maximum burn injuries and she had to be rushed to a hospital in Delhi." Hameed said no arrests had been made and the motive behind the crime was unclear. |
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