Two people have been arrested after a suspected hit and run at a mosque left a worshipper fighting for his life. A woman, 21, and a man, 23, have been held on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, said Leicestershire Police. Officers said they are not treating the incident as terror-related. At around 1am on Thursday morning a vehicle rammed into a 40-year-old worshipper who was leaving the Masjid At-Taqwa mosque in Leicester. Police said he was seriously injured but is now in a stable condition in hospital. A teenage boy was also hit by the car just after Taraweeh – the prayers made during the month of Ramadan – and suffered minor injuries.
Officers are now appealing for sightings of a blue, three-door hatchback, which failed to stop at the scene on Humberstone Road, near its junction with Spinney Hill. Police suggest it may have sustained damage in the collision and could have been abandoned.
The Masjid At-Taqwa mosque wrote on Facebook they wished the man a ‘speedy recovery, and to grant his family plentiful patience to get through this very difficult time.’
They reminded worshippers to be ‘very vigilant and to take care when leaving the masjid.’ Officers are also appealing for anyone who may have dashcam or CCTV footage of the incident to get in touch. Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting incident 19 of 30 May.
