London mosque 'hate crime' crash: Terrifying scenes of worshippers running after 'car ploughs into crowd'

This is the chaotic scene after a car hit pedestrians outside a mosque as worshippers ran.



Police are investigating whether the incident outside the Al-Majlis Al-Hussaini Islamic centre in Cricklewood, north-west London, was an anti-Muslim attack.



Video footage of the incident appears to show people fleeing in terror in the early hours of this morning.



Muffled shouting can be heard and groups of police officers can be seen in the dark talking to members of the community. One man can be heard shouting "experienced" at the start of the footage.



"A guy just came through with a car, hit about - I don't know how many people," another man recording the video says.



Taunts of "dirty Muslims" could be heard coming from the car, said Hassan Naddi, head of security for the Hussaini Association.



The car's occupants - three men and a woman in their mid-twenties - had allegedly been behaving anti-socially.



It is claimed a group drove near the centre and made Islamophobic remarks during a confrontation with a "large group of people", then crashed into pedestrians as it drove off "at speed" after being damaged by people outside.



Three people were injured in what a Muslim organisation claims was a "suspected premeditated Islamophobic attack".