pinned to the floor by police after
being apprehended by worshipers this is
a suspected attacker within hours of the
attack this video appeared on social
media a novelist as your parent weapon a
knife on the floor eyewitnesses say the
man was standing in line during
afternoon prayers and suddenly silently
stabbed a worshipper praying in front of
him the victim in his 70s believed to be
the Morrison the man who leads the call
to prayer is now in hospital his
injuries are not believed to be
life-threatening the suspect a 29 year
old man was led away to a central London
police station and is now being
questioned on suspicion of attempted
murder
we will shop we don't know what's
happened we saw the guide in the floor
and what didn't he got blood disorder
and the knife from the floor yeah 20
people behind
players were just starting yeah he was
waiting for him I think to start to cry
then he came from behind yeah I know he
was behind him he pried behind yeah and
he was behind him you know he was
praying behind him we just start to say
traumatic traumatic experience everyone
because there's a situation where you
know you're watching somebody trying to
murder someone in front of you literally
meters in front of you you know so what
do you think would have happened if he
hadn't been stopped well he he stabbed
if you're stabbing him in the neck
police are not treating the incident as
a terror attack and the suspects motives
are still unclear there are conflicting
reports from worshippers about whether
the attacker had been seen at the mosque
before the Prime Minister tweeted a
statement expressing his sadness saying
it's so awful that this should happen
especially in a place of worship my
thoughts that would the victim and all
those affected last year like at many
other mosques security was increased
here at Regent's Park following the
terror attack in Christchurch in New
Zealand where 51 people were killed the
Muslim Council of Britain says it's now
reissuing safety advice as communities
around the country weigh up how to
continue keeping mosques as open spaces
while still protecting worshippers when
our reporter Simeon Braun is at London
Central Mosque for us tonight Simeon
what can you tell us about what happened
today I mean earlier there was a deep
intake of breath following the news that
happened in Germany oh when we heard
about the news of the attack here now of
course the motivations are unknown the
police and the Muslim cells are not
treating it like a terror attack one of
the things that that we've heard from
the grounds that the man was believed to
have been a visitor in the past here the
man has been arrested is 29 years old
and the man who was stabbed it's a man
to be believed to have been coming here
over the past thirty years and he's the
man responsible for making the call to
prayer
we spoke to the director general of the
mosque and he was almost relieved that
the attack was it more severe and not
only that he himself you're treating it
like isolated incidents it's already
Islam is a part of Europe now yes we
don't see that is they are they are not
or let's say they are like like it's
related or they are not part of the
society and this this Center especially
is working in many fields working with
the government working with the civil
society working with all communities
also together well it's awful we don't
like it of course and we are so sorry
this happen in the mosque and hopefully
it's it's individual attack and there
isn't there is nothing further we be
changing your security for the good
we'll try to of course so to remedy if
there is any gap or any problem we try
to do that in definitely that's dr.
Ahmad Al Dubin from London Central
Mosque there