Four Boston College students were doused with acid by a woman outside a French train station Sunday, according to reports. The women — identified by the…
Four Boston College students were doused with acid by a woman outside a French train station Sunday, according to reports.
The women — identified by the Boston Globe as Courtney Siverling, Charlotte Kaufman, and Michelle Krug and Kesley Korsten — were traveling from Marseilles to Paris when the 41-year-old mentally ill woman hurled hydrochloric acid at them shortly after 11 a.m. outside the Saint-Charles train station, Le Parisien reported.
Three of the young women were enrolled at the college’s Paris Program, and Korsten attended the BU-affiliated Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, the Globe reported.
“It appears that the students are fine, considering the circumstances, though they may require additional treatment for burns,” Nick Gozik, who directs BC’s Office of International Programs, said in the statement. “We have been in contact with the students and their parents and remain in touch with French officials and the US Embassy regarding the incident.”
The four women were taken to the hospital — two for facial injuries — and the other two for shock, said a spokeswoman for the Marseille prosecutor’s office. One of the women may have suffered eye damage.
The crazed attacker stayed on the scene and was arrested. Police do not believe the motive was terror and said she had a history of mental illness.
Last month, a van driven by a man with psychiatric problems rammed into two bus stops in the French port city, killing one woman and injuring another.
