Abu Dhabi: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised Emiratis travelling to or living in London to avoid certain “dangerous and unsafe” areas.

Maps on the ministry’s website (www.mofa.gov.ae) specifies places that should be avoided due to crimes involving pickpocketing, theft and fraud.

The areas include: Edgware Road area; Oxford Street; Soho and Piccadilly areas.

Also Shepherd’s Bush and Queensway have been marked as low security areas.

These locations were identified as dangerous and specified by the Metropolitan Police of UK on its website, the ministry said.

The advisory comes following recent attacks on Emiratis, including an attack on three Emirati women, who were bludgeoned with hammers in London’s Cumberland Hotel, while an Emirati couple was robbed in their house in the British capital within a fortnight earlier this year.

The three Emirati women, identified as Uhoud, 34, Kholoud, 36, and Fatima, 31, were viciously attacked with a hammer as they slept on the seventh floor of the luxury Cumberland Hotel on Oxford Street.

Three children and the victims’ brother, 16, and sister, 18, were sleeping in two adjoining rooms at the time but they were unharmed.

London Police arrested four people in connection with the attack just days after the incident. Three men, aged 56, 34 and 32 were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. A woman, 31, was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods.

The three are accused of stealing property worth more than £1,000 (Dh6,132) and withdrawing from one of the victim’s bank cards a total of £3,000.

Philip Spence, 32, from London, stands accused of three counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated burglary.

Thomas Efremi, 56, was charged with handling stolen goods and fraud by false representation, and James Moss, 33, was charged with handling stolen goods. A woman, Carly Baker, 31, is charged with handling stolen goods.

All the accused are British nationals, and have appeared in court on July 3.

A fifth suspect, a 34-year-old man, has been bailed.

Following the shocking assault on the three Emiratis, another Emirati couple suffered a brutal attack at their flat in Paddington, just a fortnight later.

London police arrested the two suspects, believed to be part of a gang, one week after the couple was attacked on April 22.