A van furrowed into worshippers leaving a London mosque on Monday, killing least one person and harming 10 others in what witnesses said was a think assault on Muslims.

The employed vehicle swerved into a gathering of individuals leaving supplications not long after 12 pm at the Finsbury Park Mosque, one of the greatest in the nation, witnesses said. The assault comes amid the Muslim blessed month of Ramadan.

"This enormous van just went back and forth all over us," witness Abdulrahman Saleh Alamoudi disclosed to BuzzFeed News. "He was shouting... 'Will execute all Muslims'."

British Prime Minister Theresa May said police had affirmed it was being dealt with as a potential terrorist attack and said she would seat a crisis reaction meeting later on Monday.

"Every one of my contemplations are with the casualties, their families and the crisis benefits on the scene," she said.

Police said one man was articulated dead at the scene and that the van driver, matured 48, had been confined by individuals from the general population before being captured. The driver would experience an emotional wellness evaluation at the appointed time, police said.

Eight individuals were taken to healing facility, while two were dealt with at the scene.

The leader of London, Sadiq Khan, said additional police had been sent to console groups, particularly those watching Ramadan, portraying the assault as "a strike on all our mutual estimations of resistance, flexibility and regard".

The pioneer of the resistance Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, in whose electorate the assault occurred, said he was "completely stunned".

The episode comes a little more than two weeks after three Islamist aggressors crashed into walkers on London Bridge and cut individuals at adjacent eateries and bars, slaughtering eight. .

"Assault on Muslims"

The Muslim Council of Britain said Monday's assault was the most vicious appearance of Islamophobia in Britain as of late and called for additional security at spots of love.

"It gives the idea that a white man in a van deliberately furrowed into a gathering of admirers who were at that point watching out for somebody who had become sick," the chamber said in an announcement.

Police said they were called soon after 12:20 am (2320 GMT Sunday) to reports of a crash on Seven Sisters Road, which goes through the Finsbury Park region of north London.

"From the window, I began hearing a ton of shouting and shrieking, a ton of disarray outside. … Everybody was yelling: 'A van's hit individuals, a van's hit individuals'," one lady who lives inverse the scene told the BBC.

"There was this white van halted outside Finsbury Park mosque that appeared to have hit individuals who were turning out after petitions had wrapped up."

The assault comes during a period of political turmoil in Britain, as Prime Minister May dives into separation converses with the European Union debilitated by the loss of her parliamentary larger part in a June 8 race.

She has confronted substantial feedback for her reaction to a fire in a London tower obstruct on Wednesday which killed no less than 58 individuals, and for her record on security after a progression of assaults faulted for Islamist activists as of late.

One witness disclosed to CNN unmistakably the assailant at Finsbury Park had intentionally focused on Muslims.

"He attempted to murder many individuals so clearly it's a psychological oppressor assault. He focused on Muslims this time," the witness, recognized just as Rayan, said.

Different witnesses revealed to Sky TV that the van had hit no less than 10 individuals. The Evening Standard daily paper said the van seemed to have been leased in Wales, in spite of the fact that there was no quick affirmation of this from the specialists.

'Intentionally swerved'

Miqdaad Versi, right hand secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said the van had intentionally swerved into a gathering of individuals who were helping a man who was sick and had tumbled to the ground.

"Essentially, a van swerved into them purposely," Versi told Reuters, refering to a witness.

He said the driver had come up short on the van yet a gathering of individuals got him and held him until police arrived.

The occurrence took after a progression of assaults in Britain.

Eight individuals were slaughtered and 50 harmed on June 3 when three Islamist activists crashed into walkers on London Bridge and cut individuals at close-by eateries and bars.

On March 22, a man drove a leased auto into walkers on Westminster Bridge in London and wounded a policeman to death before being shot dead. His assault executed five individuals.

On May 22, a suicide aircraft slaughtered 22 individuals at a show by American pop artist Ariana Grande in Manchester in northern England.

The assaults were a figure battling in front of the June 8 decision, with May scrutinized for supervising a drop of 20,000 in the quantity of cops in England and Wales as inside clergyman from 2010 to 2016.

She was additionally scrutinized for staying away from furious inhabitants amid her visit to the roasted stays of the 24-story Grenfell Tower. She said on Saturday the reaction to the fire had been "sufficiently bad".

The Finsbury Park Mosque picked up reputation over 10 years back for sermons by radical minister Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was sentenced to life in a US jail in January 2015 for his conviction on fear based oppression related charges.

Another leading group of trustees and administration assumed control in February 2005, a year after Abu Hamza was captured by British police, since when participation has significantly expanded among admirers from different groups, as indicated by the mosque's site.