As of mid-Monday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to respond, via his prolific Twitter account or by any other means, since a man slammed his car into a crowd of Muslim worshipers just after midnight.
In an attack British law enforcement are treating as “terrorism,” a 48-year-old white man in London plowed his van into a group Muslim worshipers outside a mosque early Monday, killing one and injuring at least ten others.
Citing witnesses, the Guardian reports that after deliberately targeting pedestrians, the driver “got out of the van and shouted ‘I want to kill Muslims’ before onlookers pinned him to the ground.” The man was held until police arrived and Sky News reports that it was the mosque’s imam who prevented some in the tense and angry crowd from beating the man.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemned the violence as “a horrific terrorist attack on innocent people. We don’t yet know the full details, but this was clearly a deliberate attack on innocent Londoners, many of whom were finishing prayers during the holy month of Ramadan.”
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