Armed police guard a street in the Finsbury Park area of north London where a vehicle hit pedestrians on 19 June, 2017.
Witnesses described seeing police giving emergency medical treatment to victims after the incident at 12.20am on Monday in Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park.
Toufik Kacimi, the chief executive of the Muslim Welfare House, said the man who was arrested had to be rescued by the imam at the centre to stop him being attacked, Sky News reported.
The secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Rashid Khan says he is "shocked and outraged to hear a van has intentionally run over worshippers leaving Ramadan night prayers on Seven Sisters Road".
Police said eight people had been taken to three separate hospitals and two people were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
"During the night, ordinary British citizens were set upon while they were going about their lives, completing their night worship", he said.
"So he came back to the main road and I managed to get him to the ground and me and some other guys managed to hold him until the police arrived, for about 20 minutes I think, until the police arrived".
"He tried to kill a lot of people so obviously it's a terrorist attack".
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"There was this white van stopped outside Finsbury Park mosque that seemed to have hit people who were coming out after prayers had finished".
A man told Britain's Press Association that the van had swerved suddenly and that he had narrowly avoided being hit.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will chair an emergency session of the security Cabinet later Monday after a van crash in London that is being investigating as possible terrorism.
Today's incident followed a series of attacks in Britain. Many police cars and ambulances were responding.
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.
Some witnesses said the driver attempted to stab people after the attack, though local hospitals say they are not treating anybody with stab wounds.
The Finsbury Park mosque has been associated with hate preacher Abu Hamza and a number of terrorists - including shoe-bomber Richard Reid, who attempted to detonate explosives on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001.
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British newspapers, including those that backed May in the June 8 election, sharpened their criticism of the government. Thirty-seven people remained in hospital, with 17 of them in critical care.
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