According to Sky News, at least nine people, including a woman, two children and three police officers, were injured on the evening of Wednesday January 31 in Clapham, south London, by an individual who fled after spraying them with a liquid described by emergency services as
“corrosive”.
It is not immediately known whether it is acid, tests are underway.
Police, supported by a helicopter, are searching for the suspect.
Firefighters said they responded to a call related to a
“chemical incident”
and provided emergency treatment to a woman and two children.
Among the injured were also three passers-by who came to help, as well as three police officers.
A total of nine people were treated at the scene, five of whom were transported to a large trauma center, according to the ambulance service.
An eyewitness told Sky News of the following scene:
“There was a man in a white car with two children.
It looked like he was trying to run over a woman.
They had fought.
He grabbed one of the two children, grabbed him violently and threw him to the ground.
The lady then shouted
“My eyes!
My eyes !
Call the police, my eyes!”
Then I saw him run away.
It was so traumatic.”