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| Severed hand attack victim dies | Severed hand attack victim dies |
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| A woman found in the street with a severed hand and a head injury has died, police have said. | |
| Officers found the 28-year-old victim in Braund Avenue, Greenford, west London, at about 1900 GMT on Monday. She died a few hours later in hospital. | |
| Investigators believe the woman might have been targeted after an acrimonious split with a former partner. | |
| Police investigating the death have arrested six people. The victim has not yet been formally identified. | |
| Attacked elsewhere | |
| Detectives want to talk to people who may have tried to administer first aid to the woman before paramedics arrived. | Detectives want to talk to people who may have tried to administer first aid to the woman before paramedics arrived. |
| One line of inquiry is that the woman was attacked elsewhere and dumped on the pavement in Braund Avenue, at its junction with Verulam Road. | |
| Det Ch Insp Andy Chalmers said: "When the victim was found we know that a lot of people were in the street and that several people may have tried to administer first aid before the police or ambulance arrived. | |
| "These people left the scene before speaking to police and I would ask that anyone who was there, or anyone else who has information about the incident, calls us in the strictest of confidence." | "These people left the scene before speaking to police and I would ask that anyone who was there, or anyone else who has information about the incident, calls us in the strictest of confidence." |