LONDON (AP) — A vehicle struck pedestrians near a mosque in north London early Monday morning, causing several casualties, police said.

One person has been arrested. The London Ambulance Service says the injured are being taken to hospitals. Eyewitnesses reported seeing police give emergency medical treatment to at least one of the injured.

The Muslim Council tweeted that worshippers were struck by a van as they were leaving prayers near the Finsbury Park mosque. It said its prayers are with the victims.
The neighborhood has two mosques, and several hundred worshippers would have been in the area after attending prayers as part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

London police have declared the crash a major incident and closed the area to normal traffic. A helicopter circled above the area as a large cordon was established to keep motorists and pedestrians away.

According to the Independent, the police didn't confirm that Muslim worshippers were specifically targeted for the attack, though a witness at the scene said up to ten people were injured at the site of the attack.

To the Independent, Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation Muslim organisation, shared: “[The attack] happened outside the Muslim Welfare House but people were leaving Finsbury Park Mosque as well so there’s a lot of confusion at the moment."

Metropolitan Police said officers were called to the scene on Seven Sisters Road at 12:20 a.m. Monday. Many police cars and ambulances responded to the incident.
No other details were immediately available.

Earlier this month, a van veered into pedestrians on London Bridge, setting off vehicle and knife attacks that killed eight people and wounded many others on the bridge and in the nearby Borough Market area. Three Muslim extremists who carried out the attack were killed by police.

Manchester was also hit by a severe attack when a bomber killed more than 20 people at an Ariana Grande concert.

Update 6/19, 3:45 a.m. EST: Metropolitan police has confirmed that one person is dead and ten people were wounded in the attack. Police arrested the van's driver on suspicion of attempted murder.

Witnesses at the scene are reporting that the man shouted, "I want to kill all Muslims." Police are treating the incident as terrorism.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan shared a statement about the incident on Twitter:

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