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after a vehicle struck pedestrians, leaving "a number of casualties" in north London.
Officers were called at 12.20am on Monday to Seven Sisters Road, the Metropolitan Police said.
London Ambulance Service said: "We have sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road."
The incident reportedly happened close to Finsbury Park mosque.
| ...long time home pulpit of one-eyed, hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza, known to his mother back in Egypt as Mustafa Kamel Mustafa. He now graces the Florence, Colorado supermax prison, and was connected to more planned and executed terror plots around the world over the past several decades than you can shake a stick at, many of them Al Qaeda. |
Eyewitnesses reported seeing bystanders wrestle the suspect to the ground and pin him down until officers arrived.
One eyewitness speaking to LBC said the van had hit people on the pavement, but had not collided with a building. "It looked like he had lost control of the van or something," he said.
A man leapt out of a white van and stabbed at least one person near a North London mosque, the Evening Standard newspaper reported on Monday, citing witnesses.
The suspect screamed "I'm going to kill all Muslims" before he was tackled to the floor, according to a witness.