- Title: Several injured after vehicle rams people leaving London mosque -witnesses
- Date: 19th June 2017
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JUNE 19, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF POLICE STANDING AT POLICE LINE CROWDS OF PEOPLE STANDING IN STREET VARIOUS OF POLICE STANDING AT LINE POLICE VEHICLE DRIVING AWAY THROUGH CROWDS
- Embargoed: 3rd July 2017 03:21
- Keywords: POLICE LONDON FINSBURY PARK INCIDENT
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Reuters ID: LVA0026LY02TJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Several people were injured in north London early on Monday after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque, witnesses said, in what British police described as a "major incident".
The Muslim Council of Britain said the vehicle had hit people as they were leaving Finsbury Park mosque.
Police said they were called just after 12:20 a.m. (2320 GMT Sunday) to reports of a collision on Seven Sisters Road, which runs through the Finsbury Park area of the city. They said there were a number of casualties and one person had been arrested.
"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'," one 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."
A Reuters witness saw at least one person being loaded into an ambulance. A number of police and ambulances were in attendance.
The incident followed a series of attacks in Britain. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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