'I saw my clothes burn away': Student and her cousin doused in acid during sickening attack
Two people have been left scarred for life after they had acid hurled at them by thugs in the UK.
Resham Khan was celebrating her 21st birthday with her cousin Jameel Mukhtar, 37, when they were reportedly attacked at a set of traffic lights in east London on 21 June.
The cousins had been celebrating Ms Khan’s birthday but reportedly had sulphuric acid thrown at them and crashed their car on the motorway.
A GoFundMe page, created by Daniel Mann, a classmate of Ms Khan’s in Manchester, says the pair stripped off their clothes and ran around flagging down cars for water and a ride to hospital.
“After 45 minutes on the motorway waiting for emergency services, a passing driver gave them a lift to the local hospital,” Mr Mann wrote.
“They ran through the hospital naked screaming.”
The pair hadn’t seen each other in two years and Ms Khan was planning on going to a spa and restaurant with her mum for her birthday.
But now their lives have been put on hold.
Ms Khan reportedly has damage to her left eye and burns across her arms, legs, face and shoulder.
Her cousin is reportedly in an induced coma with first-degree burns across his body and damage to his left eye.
Both have had skin grafts.
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“The pain was excruciating I was struggling to close the window,” Ms Khan has since tweeted.
“My cousin struggled to get us away. I saw my clothes burn away infront (sic) of me.”
Her tweets about the incident have been re-tweeted more than 8,000 times.
Mr Mann said while his classmate is “usually a very confident woman” she now feels as though her identity has been taken from her.
Metro Police told the Telegraph arrests are yet to be made as they continue to make enquiries.
The GoFundMe page, which Mr Mann hopes will raise enough money for Ms Khan and her cousin’s surgery has raised more than $A8,000.
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