Six people have been injured in Stratford, east London, in a reported acid attack.<\/p>\n
Police were called to Stratford Centre, opposite Westfield, just before 20:00 BST, following an “altercation” between two groups of males where a noxious substance was thrown.<\/p>\n
Ambulance crews treated six males at the scene for their injuries, and three of them were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n
Those reported injured were believed to be in a number of different locations, sparking initial fears that people had been sprayed at random.<\/p>\n
However the Met Police said those injured were connected to the initial attack.<\/p>\n
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Media captionPolice cordon off part of the area<\/p>\n
Ch Supt Ade Adelekan said: “I would like to be very clear concerning this incident.<\/p>\n
“What initially may have been perceived as a number of random attacks has, on closer inspection, been found to be one incident involving two groups of males.”<\/p>\n
No-one suffered life-threatening or life-changing injuries.<\/p>\n
Witnesses at the scene said an argument had broken out among a group of people.<\/p>\n
A man who gave his name as Hossen, an assistant manager at Burger King, said a victim had run into the fast food chain to “wash acid off his face”.<\/p>\n
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One man said a victim ran into a Burger King to “wash acid off his face”<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old added: “There were cuts around his eyes and he was trying to chuck water into them.”<\/p>\n
Tahseen Taj lives in one of the buildings just opposite the shopping centre and was disturbed by the noise.<\/p>\n
“I could hear a lot of ambulances and police from around 20:45, but also there’s a West Ham match today; I thought it must be a football brawl,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But after some time it just increased and increased, and there were a lot of fire brigades and ambulances and police, and it was quite chaotic to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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