"Atrocious" attack near a mosque in London, says T. Mei

The driver, a 48-year-old white man, was stopped by locals on the spot until the police arrived.

"This morning, our country woke up with the news of another one of a terrorist attack on the streets of our capital, the second this month, and so repulsive as those that preceded it," Mei told reporters outside her Downing Street office . "It was an attack on Muslims near their place of worship," said Mei, who later visited the mosque.

The attack is the fourth since March in Britain and the third with a car that the driver deliberately dropped on pedestrians.

The faithful who had gone to the mosque, who originated mainly in North and West Africa, had just finished praying during the sacred month of Ramadan. Abdulrahman Eintrus said that he and his friends helped an elderly man who had suffered a heart attack when the van fell over them.

"He said" I want to kill more, I want to kill more Muslims, "Eintrus said on BBC television. He said he helped catch the driver while other eyewitnesses said the Imam rushed to make sure the man would not hurt.

The police said ten people were injured, eight were taken to hospital, the two in a very serious condition.

Mei, who lost her parliamentary majority in the 8 June parliamentary elections that she proclaimed itself to boost her negotiating power in the Brexit talks, was criticized for her handling of security following the previous series of attacks attributed to Islamists Fighters