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Model's Face Melted in Vicious Acid Attack

Katie Piper's dreams were destroyed when stranger splashed her with acid.

PHOTOS: Katie Piper's Face Melted in Hideous Attack

Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Photo: British model Katie Piper was brutally burned when a stranger threw sulfuric acid in her face.
Piper was not only splashed in the face with acid, but she also swallowed some, which badly damaged her esophagus and stomach. "The nature of the acid, it was eating across and eating down and, it was like... a race against time, there was so much panic," Piper later said of the incident. Here, her burns are pictured 43 days after her initial surgery. (Courtesy Mohammad A Jawad)
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