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Incident. we know that this van plowed into a crowd of people, the reason why they were out at 12:20 a.m. local time was because evening prayers wrapped up but this is going to stir a lot of number of old emotions, richard. >> have you been a able to speak to any of those who were attending the mosque and who were there when this incident had happened? i understand it is -- well, i should not say popular, but well attended on friday prayers, and about 1,000 at the end, and that is a pretty big number. >> we have spoken to some people who had been inside of the mosque, and eyewitnesses who arri...

The community and not just the muslim community but all londoners is, this is what happened, these are the facts and this is what you need to know and this is the help we need. they can't wait too long because, you know, tempers rise and rumors travel so it's better to get some information out early. i think that there may be some efforts to locate and apprehend other players if that's true that there was others in the van and that may be causing some of that delay. if they come out with a strong message and that strong message backs up their visual message that we're looking at right here tha...

Framing of this is appropriate. >> whichever way this lands, what you say is reflective, indicative of the nuances of the fabric of what this london, this british backdrop is on what this breaking story is at this hour, at 4:37 in the morning. i want to play a little bit from one witness told our -- told our team. let's listen to that. >> there are three people actually in the van. >> there were three people? >> three people in th van. one is being catched by the police, they catch him and two actually they run away. >> i was mentioning this data point earlier from the witness. nbc news unable...

There has been several incidents of islamaphobia and this was the most violent and i quote manifestation to date. that sort of summarizes some of the sentiment here on the street. we are waiting for an update from the authorities who have not said that this was a deliberately motivated attack yet, they have not labeled this an act of terrorism yet. we did hear from prime minister theresa may who did call this a terrible incident and said that her thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured by that van. what we know so far, what's confirmable so far as far as what the authorities ...

Casualty might be. no confirmed reports of this as terror related as of yet. we have had no confirmed reports that this is intentional as of yet. london witness telling our nbc news producers on the ground there and reporters that three people were in the van, two ran away. this is not been indepennt confirmed by nbc news. this is what a witness has been telling , that there is a lot of different full pieces of information that are out there which is common in these breaking news situations that are put out in various distribution challenges social media being one that is quite common and an i...