A TEENAGER fractured a bone in his back during an assault outside a Burnley takeaway.

The 19-year-old went to hospital and is now having to wear a back brace.

Just after midnight on Sunday, April 9, he was in the Balti King, Yorkshire Street, when a group of men entered and were threatening. He was jumped upon by two of the three men when he left.

One of the attackers is described as 22 years, 5ft 10ins to 6ft tall, slim with short dark hair. He has only one tooth in his top jaw. The second is 40, stocky, 5ft 8ins tall with short hair and the third is in his late 20s early 30s and of large build.