Terrorist attack in Finsbury Park, North London

[lemons]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40322960



A man has died and 10 people have been injured after a man drove a van into worshippers near a north London mosque.

The van struck people after mounting the pavement just after midnight BST outside Muslim Welfare House, near Finsbury Park Mosque. A 48-year-old man has been arrested.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said police were treating it as a "terrorist incident".

Eyewitness Abdul Rahman said the driver said he wanted to "kill all Muslims".

Mr Rahman told the BBC he struck the man and helped subdue him.

"When the guy came out from his van he wanted to escape, run away and he was saying 'I want to kill Muslims. 'I want to kill Muslims.'

"I hit him on his stomach... and then me and the other guys... we held him to the ground until he couldn't move. We stopped him until the police came."



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[-:Undertaker:-]

Finsbury Park Mosque eh.

That terrorist factory pumping out Salafi filth is still open?

[myles]

took them a while to call it a "terrorist incident" purely because the man wasn't brown

[Stephen]

iirc it took a while for the Manchester bombing to be called a terrorist incident and the Westminster attack. Neither of the people who did that were white so...

[lemons]

iirc it took a while for the Manchester bombing to be called a terrorist incident and the Westminster attack. Neither of the people who did that were white so...

actually they were both regarded as terrorist incidents pretty quickly

manchester incident details were very sketchy at first (ppl saying it was speakers and balloons)

[FlyingJesus]

It's true, professional news agencies do tend to wait until they know for sure before calling something a terrorist incident. Shocking.

Anyway yeah horrible attack, one fatality and several injured and supposedly the bloke was shouting that he wanted to kill all Muslims, disgusting that anyone would actually go through with acting on such violent thoughts