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[Published: Sunday June 25 2017]

 Driver ploughs car into Muslim worshippers

Newcastle, UK 25 Jun (ANA) - Six people including three children have been injured when a car careered out of control in a field full of Muslim worshippers celebrating the end of Ramadan. The vehicle ploughed into crowds who had packed into a college sports pitch that was serving as an overflow car park for Newcastle Central Mosque at 9.14am today. Witnesses say the driver, a 42-year-old Muslim woman, had got into her car after prayers when she 'pressed the gas rather than the break' and sped into adults and children. Bloodied victims fled in horror as the car sped around the field outside Westgate Community College before a heroic bystander jumped in and pulled the handbrake. The woman was arrested and taken into police custody but police said the incident was not terror related. The event sparked panic just a week after suspected terrorist Darren Osborne, 47, deliberately drove into worshippers outside Finsbury Park Mosque in London. People ran across the field in panic as they saw the car ‘spinning’ through the crowds, which included large numbers of children. Witnesses said the first person hit was a ‘little boy’ as it span round three times before coming to a halt by a path. Video shows officers comforting people caught up in the incident, which included a man bleeding from his shoulder. Witness Uman Nyanzi said: 'It was a complete freak accident. She was praying with us just before this all happened. 'She was in the car and she was speaking to someone literally just seconds before the accident.(ANA)
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