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Woman severely burnt in lover’s acid attack
View(s):A 26-year-old woman was seriously burnt and scarred after her jilted lover allegedly launched a vicious acid attack that also hospitilised five others at Udugama in Galle late Friday, police said yesterday.
According to police, the suspect is alleged to have boarded the private bus in which the victims were traveling and allegedly carried out the attack without warning.
Among the injured were the bus conductor and four other females. They are being treated at the Karapitiya Hospital in Galle, while the seriously injured woman was transferred to the National Hospital in Colombo.
Police are now hunting for the alleged attacker.
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