LONDON (CBS News) – One person was arrested early Monday morning after a vehicle rammed into pedestrians, leaving ten people injured and possibly killing one in what police said appeared to have been a terrorist attack near a north London mosque. A witness told CNN’s Phil Black the van “came to a stop, and that’s when they were able to apprehend the driver … they were able to pull him out.”

What we know so far

— The incident happened just after midnight local time Monday morning

— Authorities are treating casualties at the scene on Seven Sisters Road

— Witnesses say a vehicle ran into Muslim worshippers near Finsbury Park Mosque

— One person is in custody

London Ambulance tweeted: “We have sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road. Asserting that all the pre requisites were being taken care of, Kevin Bate assured to assess the level and nature of injuries and ensure those in the need are treated first and taken to hospital. “It is too early to state if his death was as a result of the attack.”

Regardless, police said the incident “had all the hallmarks of a terrorist incident.”

The driver of the van, a 48-year-old man, “was found detained by members of public at the scene and then arrested by police in connection with the incident,” according to a statement released by the police. The police did not give any information about a suspected motive, but said the incident was being investigated by the Counter Terrorism Command, and noted that, “due to the nature of this incident extra policing resources have been deployed in order to reassure communities, especially those observing Ramadan.”

Witnesses said the van ran into worshipers as they left the Muslim Welfare House and the nearby Finsbury Park Mosque shortly after midnight prayers. Witness Mohamed Mohidin told the Reuters news agency that the van driver came onto the sidewalk, “coming straight towards all the Muslims, and as he’s coming to them he hit all of them, and I think one of them died straight away… and the rest are in a bad condition.”

A man who said he helped tackle the van driver to the ground and hold him there until police arrived said the suspect told him he had, “wanted to kill more Muslims.”

Another witness, Khalid Amin, told the BBC that the van turned onto the sidewalk and “just hit the people.” He said that as members of the public seized the driver, “he was shouting, ‘all Muslims, I want to kill all Muslims.’ Literally, he said that. Eyewitness video from Finsbury Park terror attack Eyewitness video from Finsbury Park terror attack

‘HE WAS WAVING AND LAUGHING’

The vehicle mowed down about 10 people on the street outside the Muslim Welfare House and around the corner from Finsbury Park Mosque just after midnight on Sunday. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said: “Today’s attack falls at a difficult time in the life of this city, following on from the attack on London Bridge two weeks ago — and of course the unimaginable tragedy of Grenfell Tower last week, on which I will chair another meeting of Ministers and officials later today. A similar statement by Prime Minister Theresa May also called the attack “a terrible incident.”



“All my thoughts are with those who have been injured, their loved ones, and the emergency services on the scene,” May said. In 2003, the mosque was raided by the police and shut down before it was reclaimed in 2005 by the local Muslim community and transformed with the help of the Muslim Association of Britain. London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, offered his “thoughts and prayers” on Twitter to the victims of what he called a “horrific terrorist attack on innocent people.”

“While this appears to be an attack on a particular community, like the terrible attacks in Manchester, Westminster and London Bridge it is also an assault on all our shared values of tolerance, freedom and respect,” he said. A woman who lives opposite told the BBC: “From the window, I started hearing a lot of yelling and screeching, a lot of chaos outside … Everybody was shouting: ‘A van’s hit people, a van’s hit people!’”

One witness, identified only as Rayan, told CNN it was clear that the attacker at Finsbury Park had deliberately targeted Muslims. The Muslim Council said on Twitter that "we have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark Mosque.
At least one person has been killed and ten injured after a van runs over pedestrians outside the Finsbury Park Mosque in the north London suburb of Finsbury Park. Police are investigating the act as a terrorist incident.