London Mosque: Vehicle crashes through pedestrians

WITNESSES say up to three ‘attackers’ escaped after a van ‘intentionally’ swerved into a crowd of pedestrians near London’s Finsbury Park Mosque.

London police say one person has been detained after the incident, which caused “a number of casualties”.

Eye witness Zakriya James, 24, said he believed there were four attackers in what appears to have been a rented white delivery van. Three got away.

The local said the van “ploughed” into people as they exited the mosque.

“The van just came through as people were walking towards where it was coming from,” he said.

“They didn’t realise what was going on at first. People just started running.

“As far as I know there were four white males and three got away.

“It probably is a retaliation. People were coming out of their prayer. That says something.”

Reports suggest up to 10 people have been hurt near a mosque at Finsbury Park just after midnight (9am AEST).

Up to 100 hundred people are gathered outside the cordoned off zone which is blocking the mosque, with tensions high after the incident.



A group of men huddled together to condemn the “terror attack” outside the mosque, where people had been engaging in Ramadan.

“This is a terror attack!” a man shouted.

One person has been arrested.

There is a massive police response on the scene with riot vans, armed personnel and a helicopter.



A man, who asked not to be named, said his uncle had been hit by the van.

“I have not heard from him but my friend told me he’d been hurt,” he told News Corp.

“The van just drove up and hit them out of nowhere.

“They didn’t see it coming.

“They knew there would be people there.

“They were white extremists.”



ity is on edge after the London Bridge terror attack on June 3, where three Islamic terrorists killed eight people, including two Australians.

The killers mowed down pedestrians on the famous bridge before going on a stabbing frenzy at nearby Borough Market.

On March 22, Briton Kahlid Masood ran over pedestrians on Westminster Bridge killing four people and injuring 50.

The current attack has happened only four days after the city suffered a horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in west London, which took more than 58 lives.


DETAILS EMERGE

Metropolitan Police said officers were called just after midnight on Sunday to an incident on Seven Sisters Road.

“Officers are on the scene with other emergency services,” he said. “There are a number of casualties being worked on at the scene. There has been one person arrested. Enquiries continue.”

London Ambulance reported it has sent ‘a number’ of resources to the Seven Sisters Road ‘incident’.

It is understood that the pedestrians were hit outside a local Muslim welfare house.




Unconfirmed reports from the scene suggest that up to four people may have been killed.

Photos purporting to show the white van used in the attack show it was rented from a company in Wales.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), an umbrella body, said on Twitter: “We have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark Mosque. Our prayers are with the victims.

Harun Khan, the general secretary of the MCB, tweeted that the van had “intentionally” run over people leaving night prayers held during the holy month of Ramadan.

Khan said he was “shocked and outraged to hear a van has intentionally run over worshippers leaving Ramadan prayers”.




EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

Witnesses have told LBC radio that the van approached “slowly and intentionally accelerated into crowded cafe outside a mosque”.

Another witness told the station: “I saw police giving CPR, getting the heart going again and another guy on the floor.”

Local resident Mohammed Mudhar, 28, said his family were inside the mosque at the time.

“I ran here to check they were OK,” he said.

“Luckily they weren’t hit.

“They did this at a time they had thought through perfectly.

“It was right as they had finished prayer and were coming out to break their fast and eat.

“They hit about 10 people. The timing was spot on.

“It makes me very scared. We’re just normal people.”



A witness told LBC radio people had been drinking coffee at a nearby cafe after leaving the mosque after Tarawih prayers performed for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The holiest month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan will finish this coming Saturday, June 24.

Another caller told LBC her sister was at the scene when the incident happened.

The woman said her sister described it as “something from a horror movie, everyone running everywhere”.

She didn’t realise what was going until she saw people on the ground.



One witness told the BBC at least three people were seriously injured. “From the window, I started hearing a lot of yelling and screeching, a lot of chaos outside. ... Everybody was shouting: ‘A van’s hit people, a van’s hit people’,” a woman who lives opposite the scene told the BBC. “There was this white van stopped outside Finsbury Park mosque that seemed to have hit people who were coming out after prayers had finished. I didn’t see the attacker himself, although he seems to have been arrested, but I did see the van.”

Eyewitnesses reported seeing bystanders wrestle a suspect to the ground and pin him down until officers arrived.

‘TERROR ATTACK’

Mohammed Kozbar, chairman of Finsbury Park mosque, told The Sun: “Whoever did this, he did it to hurt people and it’s a terrorist attack.

“We call it a terrorist attack as we called it in Manchester, Westminster and London Bridge. The van drove over people who were leaving late prayers. They were gathering in Seven Sisters Road.

“I heard there are fatalities but I don’t want to jump to conclusions. My concern now is the casualties who have been affected.”



MOSQUE’S RADICAL HISTORY

Finsbury Park Mosque has been known to have served as a clearing house for radical Muslims after cleric Abu Hamza arrived as imam in 1997.

Al Qaeda operatives including “shoebomber” Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui attended the mosque.


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