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Acid attack victim released from hospital

August 12, 2013 15:26
Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee

ByAnna Sheinman, Anna Sheinman

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One of two 18-year-olds JFS students burned in an acid attack in Zanzibar has been discharged from hospital.

Kirstie Trup left the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Sunday night.

Katie Gee, who was volunteering in Zanzibar with Ms Trup, is still being treated. She is set to undergo surgery after suffering burns to 80 per cent of her right arm and 50 per cent of her torso.

Ms Trup’s burns are less severe because after the acid was thrown at her on Wednesday night she ran into the sea. Her father Marc Trup tol Tthe Times: “That completely altered the result – the salt water and the acid.”