Five hurt in London acid attack robberies

British police arrested two teenagers yesterday after five acid attacks in less than 90 minutes across east London left several people with facial burns, including one with horrific injuries. Two assailants on a moped pulled up alongside a 32-year-old man in the Hackney area of east London at 2125 GMT on Thursday and threw acid in his face before one of the pair made off with the victim's moped. In the next hour and a half, three other men across Hackney and one in the neighbouring borough of Islington had corrosive substances hurled at them, police said.