Perth police hunt man with swastika on forehead who attacked woman using a flamethrower

Authorities say the man yelled racial obscenities during the cowardly and random attack'

West Australian police are hunting a man who had a swastika painted on his head when he allegedly attacked a woman with a makeshift flamethrower.

Police say the 40-year-old woman and her teenage daughter were approached by the man in the southeast Perth suburb of Gosnells on Saturday night.