http://news.sky.com/story/1104229/mosque-stabbings-police-and-locals-heroicPolice have praised the efforts of officers and the community as "heroic" after four men - including a policeman - were stabbed at a mosque.They were stabbed with a large combat knife by a fellow worshipper inside the Washwood Heath Muslim Centre in the Ward End area of east Birmingham on Saturday night.
A group of worshippers confronted the attacker, who is not known to the mosque, before police arrived minutes later at around 11pm.
One officer used a taser on the suspect but it failed to have an effect on him, said Chief Superintendent Alex Murray. The policeman was knifed in the chest and stomach, around his stab-proof vest.
Chief Supt Murray said: "The work of those officers was heroic and the work of some of the people in the mosque assisting those officers was also heroic."
A 32-year-old man, believed to be of Somali origin, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He has been taken to a secure mental health facility, West Midlands Police said.
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