Two women being hunted by police after 'punching and kicking Muslim woman in a hijab during violent Islamophobic attack on a London bus'

Police were today hunting two women accused of punching and kicking a Muslim woman wearing a hijab during a violent Islamophobic attack on board a London bus.

Fellow bus passengers said the woman, in her 40s, was subjected to a torrent of racist and Islamophobic abuse, before she was punched in the head and kicked off the bus as it travelled through Southwark in south London.

They then continued to hurl abuse at her as she lay on the pavement, close to Elephant and Castle tube station. 

Police were called to the scene, and the woman, who was badly shaken by the attack, was then taken to hospital for treatment.

Officers have today released CCTV photographs of two female suspects, who were believed to be in their twenties, following the attack on October 28. 

'Officers were called at approximately 20.10 on 28 October to reports of a woman being subject to racial and Islamophobic abuse on a route 63 bus on London Road, Southwark,' said a spokesman from the Metropolitan Police. 'The bus was travelling from Kings Cross to Peckham.

'Officers attended and spoke to a woman in her forties who was injured as a result of being punched in the head and kicked off the bus by two female suspects.

'The suspects were heard by the victim and witnesses shouting racist and Islamophobic abuse at the victim before and after the attack.'

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