Acid Throwinging: Vitriol Assault

Acid throwing, additionally called an acid attack, a vitriol attack or vitriolage, is a form of belligerent assault defined as the act of throwing acid or a similarly corrosive substance onto the body of another "with the intention to disfigure, maim, torture, or kill." Perpetrators of these assailments throw acid at their victims, conventionally at their faces, burning them, and damaging skin tissue, often exposing and sometimes dissolving the bones. The most mundane types of acid utilized in these assailments are sulfuric and nitric acid. Hydrochloric acid is sometimes utilized, but is much less damaging. The long term consequences of these assailments may include optical incapacitation, as well as perpetual scarring of the face and body,
along with far-reaching gregarious, psychological, and economic difficulties.
Today, acid assailments are reported in many components of the world. Since the 1990s, Bangladesh has been reporting the highest number of attacks and highest incidence rates for women, with 3,512 Bangladeshi people acid assailed between 1999 and 2013. Albeit acid attacks occur all over the world, including in Europe and the Coalesced States, this type of violence is mainly concentrated in South Asia.