Hunt for teenager, 19, after woman has chemical thrown in her face

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Police are searching for a young person after a lady in her thirties was the sufferer of a suspected chemical assault.

Officers had been referred to as at round 1.30pm on Sunday after stories a lady in her thirties had a substance, considered ammonia, thrown in her face at an tackle on Whinfield Highway in Fleetwood.

The sufferer was taken to hospital however was not severely injured and has since been discharged.

At this stage, the assault was an remoted and focused assault with no wider menace to the general public, police mentioned.

Officers wish to converse to 19-year-old Mickey Blundell in relation to the continued investigation. {The teenager}’s final recognized tackle is Radcliffe Highway, Fleetwood.

Detective inspector Kirsty Wyatt mentioned: “It’s only a matter of luck that this sufferer didn’t obtain extra vital accidents and we’re treating this extraordinarily severely.

“We’re finishing up our personal enquiries to hint the suspect, however we might additionally prefer to attraction for the general public’s assist to search out him. If anybody sees Blundell or is aware of the place he could also be I’d ask them to not strategy him however to contact police as a matter of urgency.”