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Call for action to prevent acid attacks

A victim of an acid attack has joined calls by a campaign group for much stricter controls on the sale of acid to help reduce the number of people injured in attacks.
Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which collates statistics for the NHS, suggest the number of people admitted to hospital due to an assault with a corrosive substance has doubled in the past 10 years.
Wayne Ingold, who needed skin grafts for burns to his face, hands, neck, arms and shoulder after an acid attack in 2014, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that it was "scary how easy and cheap it is to buy acid".

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