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A teenager has been left with potentially "life-changing injuries" after he was attacked with a knuckleduster and sprayed with a noxious substance in Greenwich, police said.
The 18-year-old was left with serious facial injuries including a fractured eye socket and a broken nose following the "unprovoked" assault.
The victim had just got off the bus at Bexley Road in the early hours of Saturday when he was approached by three men.
The teenager tried to move out of their way but they began to harass him, and a verbal altercation followed, according to police.
Police said one of the men pulled out a knuckleduster and repeatedly punched the victim in the face, while another pulled out a small bottle of clear liquid and threatened the victim before spraying it at him.
The culprits are then thought to have run off towards Avery Hill Road.
Detective Constable Dan Newbury, of Greenwich Borough, described it as "a truly vicious assault".
"The victim was minding his own business on his way home when these three males have confronted him and left him with injuries that are possibly life changing," he said.
The victim made his way to hospital where police were alerted at 12.50am on Saturday.
The suspects are all described as ages between 18 and 25 years old and were all wearing tracksuits.
According to police, the suspect who punched the victim had short blonde hair and was around 5ft 10in tall.
The second and third suspects were around 5ft 8in tall and also had short blonde hair.
Anyone with information is asked to contact officers at Greenwich via 101 quoting incident number 256/16 June, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.