casualties, they have said someone is in custody and they re working to get to the bottom of precisely what happened here. and we re going to continue to monitor their twitter feed. they do tweet quite a bit when we ve seen these incidents unfold, sadly as you mentioned, multiple times in the past few months. i want to bring in juliette cayyem who is joining us via skype. again, juliette, all we know is this incident happening a little after made night local time there in london, in the northern part of the city, that there was a vehicle that hit pedestrians, multiple casualties and at least one person under arrest. we do not know whether this could be terror-related or an isolated incident, but a lot of people s minds go through because of the history, the recent history in london. reporter: and you would actually want at least the british police s minds to go there in terms of an investigation. that s why you have seen such a quick reaction on twitter and them trying to at least
we want to bring you up to date on the breaking news we re covering. a van has hit pedestrians in northern london. one man died at the scene and at least eig other people were injured. theresa may say police are treating this incident as a potential terrorist attack. and we have also heard from two witnesses who say three men got out of that van. they say one of them was taken into custody and the other two fled the scene. london police won t confirm if they re looking for suspects at this time, but they believe they have arrested the driver of that van. and police were called to the scene just after midnight local time. now, this happened near the park mosques. we have it confirmed that worshippers were deliberately targeted. council of britain said on twitter, we ve been informed that a van has ran over worshippers as they left. their prayers are would you say. earlier colleague spoke with hillary who was on the street and witnessed the aftermath of
news we re following this hour. authorities say a vehicle has hit pedestrians and there are quote a number of casualties. that s pretty much the only qualifications authorities are giving us at this hour. police say they were called to an incident on seven sisters road after midnight local time in northern london. the incident took place in neighborhood near a large mosque. the muslim kucounsel of britain said it s been informed a van ran over people as they were leaving that mosque, witnesses tell cnn three men apparently got out of that van and one of them was arrested and the two others fled. now a metropolitan police spokesman said it s too early to say if the collision is a terror incident. phil plaqblack joins us now. you had an opportunity to talk to more people and what have they been telling you? rosemary, talking about a big concern among members of the
there is anger, certainly. but also just tremendous sadness they feel the community may have been targeted directly and purposefully. we are still waiting for authorities to indicate why this happened and indeed, what the motivation was behind it. let s bring those viewers who perhaps have just joined us up to date on what we re covering here. this breaking news, a van has hit pedestrians in north london and there are a number of casualties. all the severity of the casualties and police say it s too early to know if this is a terrorist attack. three men got out of the van, one arrested and other two fled the scene. they believe the person arrested was the driver of the van. the police are not confirming two people fled the scene at this hour. police are saying they were called after midnight local
but as we see, we ve got two components which definitely fit together. that s the report that you ve got from the bbc reporter, that a vehicle was zigzagging on london bridge, that it came up on the curb and hit pedestrians. and then the incident at borough market a little later, which is directly in line from london bridge. i mean, it s just down the street from there. you know, past the london bridge experience and into the town. but, you know, we haven t really confirmed just what kind of operations the police are carrying out, apart from the response, the medical response and the police response to the actual incident. now, vauxhall, on the other hand, there s a vauxhall section of the city, that could be a response to, as you may have heard from the bbc, that they may have had a suspect in custody, and they may be carrying out what their so-19 armed police forces, may be carrying out a raid of some type