LONDON—Several people were injured in north London early on Monday after a van rammed into people 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. to report 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.
An armed police officer attends to the scene after a vehicle collided with pedestrians in the Finsbury Park neighborhood of North London, Britain on June 19, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall
