London attacker who wanted to ‘kill all Muslims’ was saved by imam

Mohammed Mahmoud, an Imam at Finsbury Park Mosque, gives a statement to the media at a police cordon in the Finsbury Park area of north London. - AFP.

LONDON: Worshippers leaving a mosque here early Monday were helping an elderly man who had collapsed when a van deliberately rammed them, driven by an attacker who shouted “I want to kill all Muslims”, witnesses said.

Shortly after midnight, the van swerved towards people who had just left prayers at the Finsbury Park Mosque and the Muslim Welfare House in north London and were assisting their stricken fellow worshipper.