appConfigEntityId

bodyType

customContents

entityId

entityUuid

isVideo

articlePageQuery

article

articleSchemaContent

content

hooksArticlePageAdvertisementConfigArticle

appConfig

filter

json

liveArticle

Associated Press

British police said they are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London.
The Metropolitan Police force said nine people were hurt after a man threw the substance at a woman and two children in the Clapham area on Wednesday.
Detective Superintendent Alexander Castle called it a “horrific incident”.
Police said nine people had been taken to hospitals: the woman and two children; three adults who came to their assistance; and three police officers.


Castle said the officers’ injuries were believed to be minor. There was no immediate word on the condition of the others.
Castle said tests were under way to determine what had caused the injuries but “at this stage we believe it to be a corrosive substance”.
He said police were searching for a man who was seen fleeing the scene.


Doing good: in celebration of those making the world a better place

Belfast stabbing victim ‘improving’ and may soon wake from coma

Starmer’s woes worsen as 2 UK ministers quit over military spending

Belfast reeling as street violence and online ‘hit lists’ terrify minorities

Britain

UK police hunt suspect in ‘corrosive substance’ attack that injured 9 in London

Police at the scene near Clapham Common, south London. Photo: AP

Two London police officers jailed for sharing crime scene photos of murdered sisters

Deniz Jaffer, one of the police officers jailed over the photos. Photo: Reuters

Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman. Photo: Metropolitan Police

Danyal Hussein was jailed on October 28, 2021, for stabbing Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry to death in a London park. Photo: Handout

Mina Smallman, the mother of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry. Photo: Reuters

UK police officer who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 sentenced for further sex crimes

London’s Metropolitan Police has been plunged crisis after a series of scandals in recent years. Photo: AP

Demonstrators hold banners as they await the sentencing of British police officer Wayne Couzens, outside the Old Bailey court in London on September 29, 2021. Photo: AFP

‘Chinese virus, get out!’: lecturer from China beaten in Britain amid spike in hate crimes

Lecturer Peng Wang suffered a bloody nose and bruises to his face after he was attacked in the British city of Southampton last week. Photo: Handout

Lecturer Peng Wang was left with a bloody nose and bruises to his face and arm after he was attacked in Southhamption, in the UK, on Feb 23, 2021

Peng Wang teaches financial management at the University of Southampton. He suffered face and arm injuries after being beaten by four men while jogging near his home. Photo: Shutterstock

News

World

Europe

A man threw a substance at a woman and her two young children in south London
Three members of the public and three police officers were also taken to hospital


Two children and their mother among those hurt in the ‘horrific incident’ in Clapham, in south London.


Crime

UK police hunt suspect in ‘corrosive substance’ attack that injured 9 in London

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}A man threw a substance at a woman and her two young children in south London Three members of the public and three police officers were also taken to hospital

A man threw a substance at a woman and her two young children in south London

Three members of the public and three police officers were also taken to hospital