Community leaders are praising a local imam for restraining a mob that had surrounded the man accused of driving a van into a crowd of worshipers near Finsbury Park Mosque in London.
Khan said this afternoon that police resources in London are so stretched that officers on holiday are being called back to ensure there is an increased presence in the capital in response to the most recent terrorist incident.
The Metropolitan Police Service, already stretched by its investigations of the earlier attacks and a high-rise apartment fire that is believed to have killed 79 people, immediately announced it was putting extra patrols on the streets to protect the public. We will focus on reports from police officials and other authorities, credible news outlets and reporters who are at the scene. Three Muslim extremists who carried out the attack were killed by police.
"I spoke to the eyewitness who caught the man and kept him safe, stopped him from being harmed by the local group that he attacked".
"I tried to stop him (the suspect), some people were hitting him but I said stop him and keep him until the police came".
"This was an attack on Muslims near their place of worship", May said in a televised address.
The driver of the van was apprehended by those at the scene and many people came to the aid of the victims.
"Over the past weeks and months, Muslims have endured many incidents of Islamophobia, and this is the most violent manifestation to date".
Witnesses said the driver of the vehicle was heard shouting that he wanted to kill Muslims. "Our thoughts and prayers with those who got injured and [affected] by this cowardly attack in Finsbury Park area, many casualties in the floor", Kozbar tweeted.
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"This attack comes at a hard time for the city", May said in her statement.
Just three days ago, an Islamophobic hate crime watch group met with members of the nearby Muslim Welfare House - located just feet from Monday's attack - to warn about safety precautions during Ramadan.
The constant specter of terrorism in London is something that Zara, 40, a Muslim and Finsbury Park local, has been struggling to grapple with. 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.
Eight people were taken to hospital after the attack outside the mosque, which is also a community centre.
The attack is being treated as a terrorist incident, targeting people who were gathered in the road tending to an elderly man who had a pacemaker fitted.
Witness Hussain Ali, 28, told the Press Association that "the leader of the mosque said 'You do not touch him'".
"The perpetrator of this attack - and those awful attacks that we saw recently in Manchester and London - their intention is to seek to divide society".
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