British acid victims reunited with their parents as the two teenage girls attacked in Zanzibar

Torment: Katie Gee, pictured under a blanket, and her friend Kirstie Trup arrive at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital today for treatment on their wounds

The distraught mother of one of the British girls burnt in an acid attack in Zanzibar has been reunited with her daughter during an emotional meeting as they arrive at hospital for treatment this afternoon.

Unable to hide her anguish,  Nicky Gee fought back tears as she watched daughter Katie and her friend Kirstie Trup leave the back of an ambulance wrapped in protective blankets.

The pair, both 18,  arrived back in Britain after being medevaced to  RAF Northolt.

They were then taken to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for  urgent treatment to wounds, described as 'absolutely horrendous' and 'beyond imagination' by Katie's father.

Katie's father, Jeremy Gee, told of the families' torment as the first picture of the wounds sustained by one of the girls emerged.

He said : 'The photographs I have seen are absolutely horrendous.

'T he level of the burns are beyond imagination.'
 
Both British teenagers suffered horrifying burns when acid was thrown in their faces as they  walked to a restaurant on the  Muslim holiday island of Zanzibar.

 
It was the third attack on them during their stay on the island.

Police have revealed that seven suspects – including a tour guide – were detained on Thursday and in the early hours of this morning in the capital Stone Town, where Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee were attacked, a  senior officer told The Telegraph.

And a £4,000 reward is now being offered by Zanzibar police for information leading to the capture of attackers, according to the BBC.

Friends suggested they could have been targeted because they are Jewish, and local police said they wanted to speak to a radical Islamic preacher who could have inspired the attack.

Police have also issued a warrant for the arrest of Islamist preacher Sheikh Issa Ponda Issa, amid suggestions his teaching could have inspired the acid attacks.

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