London, Thanasis Gavos

In total nine people are hospitalized after attack with chemical “oxidizing substance” against a woman and two young girls in south London shortly before 7.30 on Wednesday night.

Three people who rushed to help are still injured, as well as three police officers who were called to the scene.

The assailant escaped and is being sought by the police.

Pictures from the scene of the “horrific” incident as described by eyewitnesses show one car with the doors open in the middle of the road, close to the center of the bustling district of Clapham Common.

Eyewitnesses said they saw her woman and the man to get out of the vehicle in which the children were also. It is likely that this is a family, or at least that the woman is the mother of the girls. They described how the two they argued and then the man got back into the vehicle and appeared to be trying to hit the woman with it.

One of the girls, two or three years old, in the back seat banging on the window and crying. The man picked up the girl and forcefully threw her twice into the car door. Then the woman started shouting “my eyes, my eyes, call the police, my eyes!”.

The man ran away, an eyewitness account to Sky News continued.

THE witness he hurried to bring water to the woman and poured it into her burning eyes. “Her lips were black. Her skin looked burnt“, he said.

The partner of the man who brought the water to the woman is believed to be one of the nine injured, as drops of the corrosive liquid fell on her, resulting in her being taken to hospital for treatment, from where she was discharged.

A local councilor spoke of an acid attack against the woman and the children.