A mum and her three year-old daughter have potentially "life-changing" wounds following an attack with a corrosive substance which left 12 people injured near Clapham Common in Lambeth.
Mohamed Ilyas, 18, who lives on Lessar Avenue in Clapham says he ran outside when he heard screaming.
Mohamed claims to have seen a man throw a child to the floor and saw a man drive into a woman.
Mohamed Ilyas, 18, who lives on Lessar Avenue in Clapham says he ran outside when he heard screaming.
Mohamed claims to have seen a man throw a child to the floor and saw a man drive into a woman.
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00:00 I thought it was a pepper spray
00:02 So just to be clear
00:04 He drove into the woman. Yeah, he drove into the woman. Yes on the street
00:08 So as I said, I only saw the driving part
00:11 So I don't know as I said, I might I think he might have because I saw the clip on the news as well
00:15 So it looks like he stole the car
00:17 So he tried to steal the car and then I was looking up from there
00:21 Then I saw the hit she was in the middle of the street the car was parked in the middle of the street
00:27 He hit her then he tried to carry on like ramming into her but people start coming out
00:32 So he kind of like panicked a bit
00:33 So he reversed just a tad bit then the little kid started hitting the door from the outside
00:39 Yeah from the outside of the cars then he came out when the kid went back to the mom
00:43 He came out took the little child and smashed the child on the floor. That's what that's all I saw
00:48 Then he ran off yet because people tried to chase him, but no one could catch it
00:54 I didn't see that. I said I generally thought was pepper spray
00:57 I didn't know as I said until people started saying it was acid
00:59 I was like what is acid because the woman didn't look like she was hit with acid
01:03 She was screaming like my eyes my eyes like it was pepper spray. I didn't know it was acid