Monitoring Desk
LONDON: The Seven Kings mosque has been placed on lockdown in London after gun shots fired during the prayers on Thursday night.
London police have started hunt for the attacker entering the Masjid in Ilford, east London.
The firing incident occurred when the evening prayers were being held at the mosque, off High Road.
Police claimed that ballistic evidence recovered from the scene suggests that the weapon was a blank-firing handgun. There were no reported injuries or damage to the mosque, while police officers will remain at the scene overnight, it added.
In a statement shared by a Muslim Council spokesman on Twitter, the mosque’s imam Mufti Suhail said the suspect’s motives had not been established. He asked that people “avoid speculating and circulating unconfirmed information”.
There are heightened security concerns at places of worship around the world after recent attacks.
A mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, left 50 people dead.
In April, churches in Sri Lanka were targeted on Easter Sunday in a terror attack which killed at least 253 people.
