A vehicle struck pedestrians near a mosque in north London early Monday morning, killing one man and injuring 10 people in what police are investigating as a terrorist incident.
Video filmed in the immediate aftermath of a van striking worshippers near a London mosque showed a Caucasian man being detained by police.
- Just after midnight Monday, a van ran into a group of people in London's Finsbury Park neighborhood. On May 22, a suicide attack killed 22 people and injured almost 60 after an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. "An attack on one community is an attack on all of us", said Police Commissioner Cressida Dick.
"From the window, I started hearing a lot of yelling and screeching, a lot of chaos outside".
An eyewitness told the BBC how he jumped out the way of the van as it struck.
"Everybody was shouting: "A van"s hit people, a van's hit people'".
Angry crowd surround arrested man after Finsbury Park incident. Reuters could not immediately confirm that report. The London Ambulance Service says the injured are being taken to hospitals.
One witness told CNN it was clear that the attacker at Finsbury Park had deliberately targeted Muslims.
The incident comes at a time when emotions are high in England, where there have been several recent terrorist attacks.
Harun Khan, the Council's secretary general said: "It appears from eye witness accounts that the perpetrator was motivated by Islamophobia".
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Vanzella said she saw police put a man into a police vehicle and take him away, but she didn't see them arrest him. The Muslim Council tweeted that worshippers had been struck and said its prayers were with the victims.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing police give emergency medical treatment to at least one of the injured.
She said police are taking the van incident "as a potential terrorist attack", adding: "I will chair an emergency meeting later this morning".
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to serve in that position, said extra police would be deployed. The van driver tried to escape but people grabbed him. Many police cars and ambulances were responding.
Transport for London said on Twitter that sections of Seven Sisters Road were closed due to an "emergency services incident".
Monday's incident in London follows an Islamist-inspired attack on June 3 in which three militants wearing fake suicide vests ran over pedestrians and went on a stabbing spree in bars in the London Bridge area.
On March 22, a man drove a rented vehicle into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London and stabbed a policeman to death before being shot dead.
They killed eight people before being shot dead by police.
Manchester was also hit by a severe attack when a bomber killed more than 20 people at an Ariana Grande concert.
The mosque, which today operates largely as a community center, rose to worldwide notoriety in the early 2000s, due to its links with Egyptian-born radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.
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