The New Zealand mosque attacks that left 50 worshippers dead could be replicated in the U.K., the British security minister said on Monday.
Ben Wallace said such an attack "absolutely could happen" in the U.K. and that the government is considering to increase security funds for British mosques and Muslim communities across the country.
"In response to increased threat, we will increase and seek to change the funding around that [mosques] and that is why we do have the Places of Worship Scheme," Wallace said.
"We will absolutely be looking at seeing whether that needs to be increased over the short and longer term," he added.
The minister’s announcement was made following the stabbing of a young victim on Saturday by a 50-year-old suspect which the police are treating as an act of terrorism inspired by the far-right.
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