i see him waving his hand like he s proud, shaking his hand like he s very proud man. like he had achieved something. not like a man who commit accident or anything. he wasn t horrified? he wasn t horrified. he was like, yes, i did that thing, waving his hand. that was nebraska s lucy kafanov talking to an eyewitness on the streets of finsbury park where a van last night around 12:20 a.m. plowed into pedestrians coming out of the finsbury mosque after they had been in their final prayer for the day. one person has been killed, ten people injured. eight of those have been taken to three area hospitals in the london area. and right now we re going to go to jim cavanaugh. jim, if you wouldn t mind, jim s a law enforcement analyst and retired atf specialist.
by dental professionals. switch to philips sonicare today. philips sonicare. save when you buy now. i was outside the mosque, like about two minutes away from the mosque. and we were sitting with our friend in coffee shop. we hear somebody reporting an accident. and he say like a van or lorry just drive through the people in the mosque. so we just get up and run to the
approaching it thus far, what can you tell us? sure. obviously it s still early to make an official conclusion about this. but it s been some time now. we haven t heard police issue a statement it was an accident. we haven t heard police issue something that was sort of calm the community or individuals in london and the media who obviously has their attention on it. in the square when it was an accident, police came out pretty quickly to rule it out. the longer we don t hear them rule it out, the more it bkz this was some sort of specific attack targeting individuals and targeting them as they were coming out of the mosque. again, still too early to say for certain. obviously, very concerning this comes on the heels of two other
plowed into a crowd of people near a finsbury mosque, automatic police have not released any information on the incident. and speak if you will as to how investigators will look to the fact it is ramadan and it s sunday night. listening to malcolm and jim, i think they both bring an interesting point. it s probably worth noting the u.k. is under a severe terror watch. it means an attack to them is likely. if the eyewitness accounts are correct, in terms of eyewitness accounts, time has a way of slowing itself down. but if it was, you would imagine if this mosque was extremist, and indicated it s no longer, there would be a heightened system. second, if you look at the
what about the people that are there? you re saying there are more media now than residents or people coming to look at it. yeah, i mean, more media at the moment. a lot of the residents sort of moving on to work as we were saying earlier. but one thing i want to bring up again is what that live guest that we had on, ali hussein, hussein ali, was telling us that was significant. if this attack had taken place even a few minutes earlier, it would have been so much deadlier. because the hundreds of people that had gathered at the mosque to say their evening prayers had done so and were largely leaving the area. women, children on-site, elderly, he mentioned one gentleman in a wheel chair that was on the scene. so this could have been a far deadlier incident than it actually turned out to be, richard. that s something that really struck me quite deeply. yeah, and it did as well. it s a great interview that you had with hussein ali. he expressed those details to