Police are investigating after a group of women allegedly ripped off a Muslim mother's hijab during a "racist" attack as she went to collect her children from school, Evening Standard newspaper reported.

The young mum was allegedly set upon by three women "for wearing a headscarf" as she walked towards private Islamic primary school Al Khair in south London.

She was going to collect her two young children on Thursday when a number of women started "shouting and hurling abuse".

They allegedly asked if she was hot in the headscarf - before yanking it off and punching her