Mother and toddler suffer potentially life-changing injuries in London substance attack

Police at the scene in Lessar Avenue near Clapham Common (James Weech/PA)

A toddler and her mother have suffered potentially life-changing injuries after an alkaline substance was thrown at them in an attack which saw 11 people taken to hospital.

The Metropolitan Police said the 31-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter, alongside her other daughter, aged eight, remain in hospital following the incident in south London on Wednesday.