Officers at the London Central Mosque after a man died in a street attack on Thursday

Two attackers who stabbed a man to death in central London on Thursday evaded police by mingling with worshippers at a nearby mosque.

Helicopters circled the London Central Mosque on the edge of Regent’s Park after the street attack about half a mile away in St John’s Wood. The men ran inside the building, where they entered the washroom and changed their clothes before washing their hands and feet among the worshippers. It is thought they may have tried to hide among the crowd.

Several officers followed the suspects into the mosque but they were not caught and no arrests have been made.

The victim, named locally as Zahir Visiter, 24, was stabbed by a canal near his home at about 6.15pm. He was treated