(CNN)At least one person is dead, and eight are in hospital after a van slammed into crowds of pedestrians in Finsbury Park, north London, just after midnight on Monday morning local time.

A 48-year-old male suspect was arrested at the scene, according to London Metropolitan police. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said police are treating the incident "as a potential terrorist attack."

Latest developments
-- Driver was detained by members of public at the scene before police arrived.
-- Investigation of the incident is being carried out by the Counter Terrorism Command.(
-- Prime Minister Theresa May to chair an emergency meeting Monday morning
-- Muslim Council of Britain releases a statement calling it a "terror attack."
Witness Abdikadir Warfa told CNN he saw a van driving at high speed along Seven Sisters Road. He said it turned left into the alleyway and hit a number of people "mostly from the mosque." He saw an old man on the ground and others who were injured, some were "really bad," he said.
Warfa said as he attended to the injured his friends pursued the driver who had tried to run away.
"The man tried to escape. My friends told me there were two other guys with him but they caught the driver."
Attack on worshippers.
Islington's Seven Sisters Road, where the incident took place, is home to several mosques, and would have likely been filled with worshipers leaving late-night taraweeh prayers and heading back toward the Finsbury Park Underground Station.
A statement released by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) condemned what it described as a "terror attack."
"During the night, ordinary British citizens were set upon while they were going about their lives, completing their night worship. My prayers are with the victims and their families," read the statement.
Witnesses described seeing between eight to 10 people lying on the ground in front of the Muslim Welfare House on Seven Sisters Road.
Ratib Al-Sulaman told CNN he was sitting with friends two minutes away, when an "incident in front of the mosque" occurred.
"Some big van ... crushing the people in the mosque. So we just run straight away, I see police, ambulance, people lying on the floor, and a van as well," said Al-Sulaman. "There was three people in the van. One has been arrested and two ran away," he added.
The Islington borough of North London, of which Finsbury Park is a part, is home to a large Muslim community. Around 10% of the borough's population is Muslim.

Source:edition.cnn.com/2017/06/18/europe/urgent---london-vehicle-collision/index.html

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