Girl, 14, in ‘shock, pain and trauma’ after suspected acid attack outside London school

Westminster academy in west London, where the suspected acid attack occurred. Photograph: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images

The father of a 14-year-old girl who was the victim of a suspected acid attack outside her west London school has said his daughter is in “shock, pain, and trauma” and has been left with “severe injuries”.

Police are continuing a manhunt to find a man who threw a substance – believed to be acidic – at the girl and a 16-year-old boy outside the school in west London on Monday.