london including this area, is quite generally an affluent area. again, in this particular area, you have finsbury park, a well known park, you also have the arsenal football club, emirates stadium, which is obviously a destination for many football fans throughout the country. and, mac, again, on site for us, mac bishop, nbc news producer there, in london, at the finsbury park area, close to a mosque there, a road closed. seven sisters road. we re getting information from london metropolitan police that in an incident there, they re not sure, we don t have any information in terms of if it was intentional that a vehicle after a call was made about 12:20 p.m., right after a.m., right after midnight, it would be a very early monday when this
any on site. and it is not clear to you right now. on a night like this, not during ramadan, on a sunday, after midnight, is this fairly quiet area then? because it is so late and it is after midnight on a last day of the weekend? absolutely, richard. this is normally a very quiet area. you know, much of london actually more or less shuts down after about 11:00 p.m. on any night that is particularly true on a sunday night. so i wouldn t have expected to see very many people on the streets on your average night, not during the holy month of ramadan. now, also some of the information that the met has retweeted or roads that are closed, seven sisters road now closed, also saying that northbound at hornsy road and southbound at rock street closed
an incident? is it north, south, east, west of this finsbury park space? yes, richard, the seven sisters road runs directly between the finsbury park station, just north of the finsbury park mosque. it is quite close to the arsenal football club, which is quite a nice area for london, and this is one of the busiest mosques i believe in this part of london. i m sorry. i had a little bit of technical difficulty there. you said it is south of finsbury park, the actual park itself? yes, that s correct. and just north of finsbury park mosque, on the south end of the park. and so in terms of the numbers of people in the streets right now, the picture that we have from one of the residents close by to this incident, it is packed. people are almost shoulder to shoulder. yes, that s correct. even standing where i am, quite a distance from the apparent
have heard is several pedestrians hurt by a van as witnesses said that it veered off of the road into crowds that were outside of the finsbury mosque. and the metropolitan police said that officers were called in at 12:20 in the morning, and officers are on the scene as we speak as my colleague mac bishop described to you as well as other emergency services. the london ambulance services tweeted that they have sent a numb ber of emergency ambulances to seven sisters road which is right nearby that area, and the mosque, and the police say a number of casualties being worked on at the scene. one person arrested according to the met police who say that more information is going to be released once it is confirmed. obviously, no details about the motive or the types of people involved here. but this is coming on the heels of numerous attacks here in london and the most recently the borough market attack which took place a few weeks ago in which
incident, there are dozens of people standing here. i would have imagined at this time of day that the area would have been very busy, a lot of foot traffic, and a lot of people breaking their fast after prayers at the mosque. and, again this is the holy month of ramadan. and after they were leaving that mosque, after the prayers that you were talking about were performed, and so part of seven sisters road, we understand, has been closed as they undergo this operation? is that what you re seeing too? yes, that is correct. much of the road is closed as far as i can see. to the west of my position, which is on the east end of apparently where the incident occurred, there is a very heavy police presence here, multiple police helicopters circling above us, and there say lot of traffic obviously ambulances, police vehicles, moving in and out of the scene at the moment. can you describe what kind of road that is, two-way, one-way, a wide road, fairly narrow, a