Car crash
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A car has plowed into people gathering for Eid prayers near a Newcastle mosque, UK media reports. Six people have been injured and a female driver has been arrested, police said.

The crash occurred outside the Westgate Sports Centre, according to a Northumbria Police statement.

Witness Asif Anwar, 29, told the Chronicle that there are two children among the injured.

"The lady lost control of the car and hit some people. Two of them were kids," he said. "It was chaos, everyone was panicking. People just don't know what is going on these days. Terrorism is what everyone was thinking straight away."

A separate witness told the Chronicle that two people were "very, very seriously injured."

Another witness took to Twitter to explain that the collision apparently wasn't intentional.

"What I just seen is scary, the car running over the people but not on purpose, she was trying to hold the brakes and hit the people," he wrote.

"There has been an incident on Westgate Road, but we do not believe it is terror related. It is an accident as far as we can see," a police spokesperson told the Chronicle.

He added that the injured have been taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

Today's incident occurred just one week after a man deliberately drove into worshippers outside a mosque in London.

It also follows a string of terrorist attacks in the UK, which have included an attack on London Bridge that killed eight people and injured 48 earlier this month.

Last month, a suicide bombing at Manchester Arena left 23 dead and 119 injured.

An attack near the Houses of Parliament in March killed four people and injured more than 50.