4 sisters burnt in acid attack in India

Four sisters walking home in north India have suffered severe burns after being attacked with acid by two men on a motorbike, police said yesterday, in a brutal example of a growing problem in South Asia.
The youngest sister, a 19-year-old student, was admitted to hospital after the attack on Tuesday evening in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh state, about 100 kilometres  from the capital.
"The victims were walking together when two men on a motorbike made lewd remarks and the man who was riding pillion splashed acid on all of them," Abdul Hameed, the senior police officer investigating the case, told AFP.