Two women being hunted by police after 'punching and kicking Muslim woman in a hijab 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.