Clapham ‘acid attack’ - live: Manhunt as woman and children targeted with corrosive substance in south London

Woman and children targeted with ‘corrosive substance’ in Clapham – latest updates

Met Police say they are working to locate suspect

The Independent

Met Police say they are working to locate suspect.

A woman and her two young children were taken to hospital after a man threw a suspected corrosive substance at them in south London last night.

Police are racing to locate a suspect who was “seen fleeing the scene”.

A total of nine individuals, including a woman, her two children and three officers, were injured as a result of the incident. Three passersby who tried to help the woman and her children were among those who suffered injuries in the incident.

Police were called to the scene in Lessar Avenue near Clapham Common yesterday at around 7.25pm after receiving reports of the attack.

While the authorities are working “to determine what led to this awful incident,” a witness told The Sun that the mother and her children had been with a man when the pair got out of a vehicle and began fighting on the street…