4 U.S. women attacked with acid in Marseille train station

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Source: USA Today

PARIS - Four young American women were attacked with acid Sunday in the French city of Marseille by a woman who has been arrested, the Marseille prosecutor’s office said.

Two of the tourists were injured in the face in the attack in the city’s main Saint Charles train station and one of them has a possible eye injury, a spokeswoman for the Marseille prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press in a phone call.

She said all four of the women, who are in their 20s, have been hospitalized, two of them for shock.

The spokeswoman said the 41-year-old female suspect did not make any extremist threats or declarations during the attack. She said there were no obvious indications that the woman’s actions were terror-related, but added that officials could not be 100 percent sure about ruling out terror links at such an early stage of the investigation.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Sounds like a mental case, but could be anything at this point. . . nt

[keithbvadu2]

2. As Britain cracks down on weapons, criminals turn to acid attacks

As Britain cracks down on weapons, criminals turn to acid attacks

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/27/acid-attacks-rise-united-kingdom/100739780/

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029521039

[question everything]

3. There have been acid attacks on women

and I thought it had to do with honors, or provocatively dressed..

Is there no safe place in the world?

[Honeycombe8]

4. OMG. I hope they're okay and not disfigured...One's eye is affected.

Since their lives are not in danger, it seems, I hope their faces can recuperate totally, and that the one with the eye damage doesn't lose her eye or eyesight. How horrible.

That woman ... travelling with acid in hand? She had planned this. Horrible.