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Acid victim to have 'skin graft'

Kirstie Trup, one of the British teenagers injured in an acid attack in Zanzibar, is expected to return to hospital for a skin graft today. Her friend Katie Gee remains at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

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Zanzibar attacker 'smiled and threw acid' at girls

A friend of two British girls attacked with acid in Zanzibar said their assailants "smiled" before throwing the substance, Channel 4 News has reported.

Student Olivia Moore told the programme: "The two men were on a moped and they went past a group of tourists, and then stopped for the girls.

The two girls are being treated at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

"The two men then looked at each other, they nodded, and then the man on the back of the bike smiled and threw acid on the girls. From then on it is just chaotic."

Zanzibar police are searching for a radical Muslim preacher wanted in connection with the attack.

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