{"id":29156,"date":"2019-05-10T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29156"},"modified":"2019-05-10T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:30:48","slug":"armed-police-called-to-seven-kings-mosque-after-gunman-entered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/armed-police-called-to-seven-kings-mosque-after-gunman-entered\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police called to Seven Kings mosque after gunman entered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">Armed police are called to an east London mosque after a &#8220;masked&#8221; gunman entered the building during Ramadan prayers.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; orphans: 2; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0s; transition-property: padding; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1); 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">There were no reported injuries or damage to the building, with Scotland Yard adding that the incident is not being treated as terror-related.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; orphans: 2; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0s; transition-property: padding; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">A statement said: &#8220;Officers will continue to work closely with representatives from the mosque and are providing reassurance to the local community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">No arrests have been made so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; 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word-spacing: 0px;\">Ibraheem Hussain, who was worshipping inside, said: &#8220;We were upstairs in the classrooms and about 30 minutes into the night prayer a large noise went off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">&#8220;I just continued my prayer, it sounded like a firework or maybe something heavy had been dropped, so no one really thought anything of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; orphans: 2; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0s; transition-property: padding; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">&#8220;After we finished we were leaving the shoe area and someone said it was a gunshot &#8211; someone had come into the mosque and he had a firearm on him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; 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word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">Mr Hussain added: &#8220;The main thing that was in my mind was that it could have gone very wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; orphans: 2; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0s; transition-property: padding; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #4a4a4a;\">&#8220;Christchurch comes to mind, it&#8217;s crazy to think this would happen, especially after everything that has happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; orphans: 2; transition-delay: 0s; transition-duration: 0s; transition-property: padding; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.42, 0, 0.58, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 91.35pt 20.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; 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Worshippers at the Seven Kings Mosque were in the middle of their evening prayers on Thursday 9th May when the incident began, and the suspect was made to leave. 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