A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing inside a central London mosque.
The victim, in his 70s, was injured in an attack at the London Central Mosque, near Regent’s Park, which police are not treating as terror-related.
He was taken to hospital by paramedics where his condition has been assessed as non-life threatening.
A 29-year-old man was apprehended by worshippers who broke from prayer to restrain him until police arrived.
In a statement, the mosque said the injured man was the muezzin, the person who makes the call to prayer, and he had been stabbed shortly after 15:00 GMT during afternoon prayer.
Ayaz Ahmad, an adviser to the mosque, said the stabbing “would have been life-threatening if it wasn’t for the worshippers”.
Images from inside the mosque showed a white man wearing a red hooded top, jeans and with bare feet being pinned to the floor by police officers.
One video showed a knife on the floor under a plastic chair.
