A vehicle has run into pedestrians in north London, causing “a number of casualties”, UK police have said.
Witnesses said a van veered off the road into crowds outside a mosque on Seven Sisters Road near Finsbury Park station just after midnight on Monday, the Independent newspaper reported.

Metropolitan Police said one person had been arrested after officers and other emergency services arrived at the scene.

“Police were called just after 0020hrs [23:20 GMT] … to reports of a vehicle in collision with pedestrians,” they said in a statement, calling the incident “major”.



“There are a number of casualties being worked on at the scene,” police said.




Police blocked off the road near Finsbury Park station [Thomas Van Hulle/social media via Reuters]
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said it had been “informed” that a van had run over worshippers as they left a mosque in Finsbury Park.

BREAKING: We have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark Mosque. Our prayers are with the victims. https:///FSE5m3bFpo


— MCB (@MuslimCouncil) June 19, 2017

Harun Khan, secretary general of the MCB, said on Twitter that he was “shocked and outraged to hear” that a van had “intentionally run over worshippers” leaving Ramadan night prayers on Seven Sisters Road.

Al Jazeera’s Ben Rayner, reporting from Finsbury Park, said a police line had blocked off the typically busy road as about 100 people gathered nearby.

“It appears that some kind of vehicle – it’s not clear yet whether it was a van or a car – has hit worshippers as they were coming out of a mosque or a cultural centre on Seven Sisters Road, which is very near to a very-well known mosque here, the Finsbury Park mosque … probably 100 metres around the corner,” Rayner said.

“We don’t know exactly the motivation yet.”

London Ambulance Service tweeted that a number of resources had arrived at the scene.

“Our priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries and ensure those in the most need are treated first and taken to hospital,” it said in a statement.

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