British PM condemns mosque attack, fends off criticism

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May responds to complaints from some in the Muslim community that police failed to quickly respond to the attack on the north London mosque early Monday and declare it terrorism.

Speaking outside her Downing Street office, May says officers responded to the attack in one minute and declared it a terror attack within eight minutes.

May says hatred and evil of this kind will never succeed and she says the government will “stop at nothing” to defeat extremism.

Ten people were wounded in the attack on Muslim worshipers leaving the Finsbury Park mosque, with eight of them sent to hospitals. Police are investigating whether a man who died while being given first aid at the scene was killed by the attack or something else.

— AP