Srinagar acid attack: Probe on, contact numbers issued seeking information

Srinagar, December 11: The city police launched a massive manhunt to catch those who threw acid on a girl in Nowshera area on Thursday.

The girl, a student of a private law college, was attacked by some youth from a moving car, police said, and she was rushed to the nearby SKIMS Hospital where doctors said she had received severe burn injuries. It was said that the attackers fled in a white Maruti car bearing the sticker MANSA pasted on its rear glasses.

Soura Police registered a FIR following the crime and an investigation was undertaken. Nowshera comes under the jurisdiction of Soura Police Station.

Anybody having any information about the vehicle with the sticker in which the attackers fled may contact Soura Police Station in the following numbers:

9596770587, 9596770867 or 100 (Police Control Room, Kashmir)

This is the second acid attack in Srinagar in two years. A 30-year-old private school teacher was the victim of a similar attack in January last year in Baghat-Barzulla area of the city.

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