Wallsend mosque attack: worshippers fear escalating violence
AN attack on a Newcastle mosque, trapping seven worshippers inside, has been caught on security camera.
The attack happened only minutes after a group of children had finished a scripture class and is the latest in a series of incidents that have left the city’s Muslim community feeling ”vulnerable and scared”.
In the security footage, which has been provided to police, two tattooed men are seen to approach the Wallsend mosque about 9.30pm on Monday.
One man, with a large tattoo of a cross on his neck, kicks through the fence gate and hurls an object at the mosque’s front door.
Then he runs and smashes a flying kick into the door.