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A worshipper is fighting for his life after an alleged hit and run outside a mosque, which has also left a teenage boy injured.

The Masjid At-Taqwa Leicester mosque said one of its worshippers was critically injured by a vehicle that allegedly rammed into him outside the mosque overnight.

Shocking CCTV shows a car speeding down the road and clipping innocent bystanders just before the alleged hit and run at around 1am.

The Masjid At-Taqwa Leicester mosque wrote on its Facebook page: "Last night after Taraweeh, one of the brothers who prayed with us was the victim of a hit and run just outside the masjid [mosque].

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"He is fighting for his life, and we implore anyone reading this post to ask Allah the Lord of The Worlds to grant him a full and speedy recovery, and to grant his family plentiful patience to get through this very difficult time.

"We remind you all to be very vigilant and to take care when leaving the masjid."

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Eyewitnesses Saira and Asiyah Waraich said: "I went to get the Eid gifts from my uncle's car and as I was crossing I could hear car sounds really loud.

"My sister tells me car's coming fast, car's coming fast, so I grabbed her hand, we were running and [as] the car comes close he's diverted his steering wheel to us.

"So I grabbed my sister's hand, I push her back, I step back myself and the car comes right past me, hits my shopping bag and hits the other guy who was crossing the road as well."

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Another witness Amar Waraich said: "The street is quite small and what we saw was a car come really loud whizzing past... he does a u-turn and the same car comes speeding back.

"That time is when my nieces had taken the gifts from me and I hear a very loud noise - 'bang' - at which point we've then ran and had a look - and in that time the car was gone.

"He had hit someone and they both were on the floor and there was no sign of the driver."

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Leicestershire Police said it received a call from East Midlands Ambulance Service to a report of a man in his 40s and a teenage boy being struck by a vehicle in Humberstone Road, close to the junction with Spinney Hill Road, in Leicester.

A spokesman for the force said: "Both have been taken to hospital, the boy sustained a minor injury while the man is in a serious condition.

"The vehicle failed to stop at the scene and enquiries are ongoing to locate it. Humberstone Road has been closed at its junction with Spinney Hill Road while officers remain at the scene."

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Leicestershire Police does not believe the vehicle deliberately drove at pedestrians at this stage of its investigation.

The force is not treating the incident as terror-related.

Anyone with information can ring 101 quoting incident number 19 of May 30.