Suspect in London van attack identified as Darren Osborne

According to the Metropolitan Police Service, a vehicle collided with pedestrians in Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, north London.

"This morning, our country woke to news of a terrorist attack on the streets of our capitol city, the second this month and every bit as sickening as those which have come before", May said.

Harun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that based on reports from witnesses, the driver was "motivated by Islamophobia". "So we just run straight away, I see police, ambulance, people lying on the floor, and a van as well", said Sulaman. "I want to kill Muslims, '" Rahman said.

"Today we come together as we have done before to condemn this act and state an act of hatred of this kind will never succeed in dividing us".

In March, a man plowed a rented SUV into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing four people before stabbing a police officer to death outside Parliament.

Mayor Khan called it a "deliberate" and "horrific terrorist attack" on "innocent Londoners".

Todays attack marks the fourth terrorist incident in the United Kingdom in four months, after attacks in Westminster, Manchester and on London Bridge. He said it was unclear whether he died as a result of the attack.

Numerous victims are believed to have just left evening prayers at a Muslim Welfare House after breaking the Ramadan fast.

The attack, in which an assailant seemed to have deliberately rammed his van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers near Finsbury Park Mosque in London shortly after midnight, is being treated as a terrorist incident, police said.

The van's driver, a 48 year old man, was restrained at the scene of the attack, and the mosque's imam kept him from being attacked.

Following an Islamist-inspired van-and-knife attack in the London Bridge area on June 3, the city saw a sharp rise in anti-Muslim crimes.

'At a time when we are all grieving the loss of so many precious people in London and Manchester, this brutal attack can only compound the trauma.

The Muslim worshippers were helping an elderly man who had fallen down in the street.

It took place near several mosques including Finsbury Park Mosque, and the community centre Muslim Welfare House.

"I recently announced who would be getting those additional funds, which included 12 mosques, and actually I have reopened it recently to make sure that any additional place of worship that feels the need can apply for extra security".

British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to fight extremism in all its forms and held an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday.

Manchester was hit by a deadly attack on May 22 when a suicide bomber killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert.

The mosque's current leaders say they support inter-faith dialogue and want to serve the community in north London, which is located near Emirates Stadium, home of the Arsenal soccer club.

Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is an MP from the area, visited the area and said: "Im totally shocked at the incident at Finsbury Park tonight".

"We told them the situation, said there's as a man, he's restrained, he mowed down people with his van and there's a mob attempting to hurt him, if you don't take him, God forbid he might be seriously hurt", he said.