Acid attack survivor to attend New York Fashion Week


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  • Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Reshma Qureshi is the face of a campaign to end the open sale of acid in India and appears in videos on YouTube offering beauty tips.PHOTO: YOUTUBE.

NEW YORK: A 19-year-old Indian woman whose face was brutally disfigured in an acid attack will walk the catwalk in New York next month in her first trip overseas.

Reshma Qureshi, who lives in Mumbai, was attacked by her brother-in-law and pinned down by his friends who doused her face with acid in 2014.

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