3 UAE women attacked with hammer at London hotel

LONDON:Three female tourists were hit in the face and head with a hammer in a brutal attack at one of London’s biggest and busiest hotels just yards from busy Oxford Street.One of the women is in a critical but stable condition after the assault in a room at the Four Star Cumberland Hotel in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The women, understood to be sisters from the United Arab Emirates, were staying at the hotel with children as young as seven-years-old in adjoining rooms when they were attacked.