Live Feed from Sky News:
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A van plowed into pedestrians on Seven Sisters road in the Finsbury Park area in north London just after 12:20am London Time, in what the police has described a “major incident.” There are “a number of casualties being worked on at the scene,” London police said in a statement, with many injured according to initial press reports.
The incident happened near the prominent Finsbury Mosque as witnesses claim the driver intentionally struck the victims; a male driver has been taken into police custody. LBC radio adds that there has been a “huge emergency response” and ambulances have been dispatched to help the injured.
This racist bastard ran over innocent civilians on their way home from taraweh #FinsburyPark http://pic.twitter.com/YHvsVZHqIY
— Didier (@Known_As_H) June 18, 2017
Some social media reports describe the attack as “Islamophobic”, and described the attack as a van “randomly swerving off the main road and running over several Muslim men.”
Islamaphobic attack in finsbury park right now. A van randomly swerved off the main road and ran over several muslim men. http://pic.twitter.com/FM2RP0Fd4d
— ???? (@__ABDULQAADIR) June 19, 2017
According to media reports, there has been is a massive police response and multiple ambulances were on scene.
The van used tonight at Finsbury Park mosque is shown below
Here’s the van used tonight at Finsbury Park mosque http://pic.twitter.com/p5Oi39VZrT
— Tommy Robinson ???????? (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 19, 2017
There was no immediate word on an exact number of victims according to LBC, whose live broadcast can be heard here.
BREAKING: Police are dealing with an incident on Seven Sisters Road nr Finsbury Park. Reports of a van hitting pedestrians (Image: @aaalec) http://pic.twitter.com/UeI5IIrwnp
— London Updates (@LondonUpdates) June 18, 2017
According to the Guardian, Al Qaeda operatives including the “shoebomber” Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui attended the Finsbury Park mosque. In 2002, weapons training had taken place inside the building. The mosque rose to notoriety when Abu Hamza al-Masri became Imam of the Mosque due to his extremist ideologies and views on terrorism.
via http://ift.tt/2sFuope Tyler Durden