At 4:30 a.m. on June 3, Monday, a man was detained at a mosque in Hayes Road, near Southall after he had reportedly attempted to attack people with a hammer. According to the Metropolitan Police, the forces had received reports of a 38-year-old man attempting to attack people and was detained by worshippers before the police had arrived.
“He has subsequently been arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm and is in custody at a west London police station.”
Nobody was harmed at the Mosque and the police is not treating the incident as terror related.
Similar incident in Cardiff
Earlier, the day before in Cardiff, two teenagers had been arrested after a “disturbance” at a mosque in the city and they were tackled by the security staff as they tried to enter the Dar-ul-Isra Muslim Educational and Welfare Centre in Cathays. According to some witnesses the “pair” had carried knives but. However, the police did not provide any confirmation about this.
Meanwhile, the mosque said that members of its securty team had been taken to the hospital with minor injuries are were released.
Later in a statement released by the South Wales Police on Twitter, the police requested the public to “avoid speculation and circulating unconfirmed information”.
The centre is now open and operating as usual and programmes are taking place as usual but security has been beefed up following these reports.
