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Police in Zanzibar has launched a manhunt for the assailants after two British teenage girls have acid thrown in their faces on the east African island of Zanzibar.
The girls, named locally as Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, both said to be aged 18, had to be treated in a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after the incident on Wednesday night.
The pair were volunteers for the charity Art in Tanzania, having booked through the company i-to-i Travel.
In a statement, Kent-based i-to-i Travel has told that the girls had now been released from hospital.
The teenagers are from London and came to island as volunteer teachers when men on a moped reportedly threw a corrosive substance at their heads, chests, backs and hands as they walked through the streets of Stone Town, the old part of the island’s capital Zanzibar City, which is a Unesco world heritage site.
The Foreign Office has said it was “concerned to hear of an attack on two British nationals” and was “providing consular assistance”.
Deputy police commissioner Mkadam Khamis has said: “Police in Zanzibar have launched a manhunt, and we ask for public assistance in identifying the attackers.”
Kari Korhonen, who runs Art in Tanzania in coordination with two other directors, has told the BBC through email the “ladies are OK considering the seriousness of this type of case”.
He has further added: “We have been operating as NGO some 10 years and this is the first serious incident.”
He told to find out about the tragedy instantly after it happened and that the charity was “sorting out the incident background with the British High Commission and the Tanzanian-Zanzibar government”.
Another representative of Art In Tanzania in Zanzibar have told that the volunteer girls had been working with the organisation for just over two weeks. It has also been told that the girls were on their way to dinner when they were attacked.
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