Acid

It now takes 11-year-old Deaira Summers two hours to get dressed after a 12-year-old girl threw acid on her at a Detroit playground, causing second and third burns all down the girl’s back, arms, and legs.

MP Claudia Webbe has survived the prospect of facing an automatic recall petition after her sentence for harassing a women was reduced on appeal.

A Texas couple was sentenced Friday for their part in dissolving their two-year-old daughter’s remains in acid after she drowned in a bathtub.

The United Kingdom’s surge of the previously unheard of phenomenon of acid attacks has seen an average of 15 a week over the past three years, with the vast majority taking place in the crime-struck capital, London.

A man has been convicted of manslaughter after a nurse he splashed with “industrial-strength corrosive sulphuric acid” contracted sepsis and died.

Britain’s acid attack epidemic is spreading from its focal point in Sadiq Khan’s London to the historic Home Counties which surround it.

Police have revealed that Britain is one of the world’s worst countries on earth for acid attacks, with more than 800 now recorded each year.

A burns surgeon who treats many acid attack victims coming out of East London has suggested that the proliferation of such crimes is now at epidemic levels.

A man was rushed to hospital from the exclusive Knightsbridge neighbourhood of London Monday evening after he was the target of an apparent acid attack.

A Pakistani woman passed away after her ex-boyfriend set her on fire when she turned down his marriage proposal.

An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eye gouged out after being convicted of blinding another man by throwing acid on his face.