Boy slashed in head at Bronx mosque

BRONX, NY — A 6-year-old worshipper at a Bronx mosque was slashed in the head when a blade-wielding man trying to outrun a fight barreled into him on August 12.

The young boy suffered a slash to his forehead after the man ran into the Masjid Salam Mosque on Longwood Ave. at Hewitt Place in Woodstock just after 2 pm, the police said.

Medics took the boy to Lincoln Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

The child was attending weekend classes at the mosque and getting ready to go home when the man ran into him, according to Imam Mouhemed Sefou.

“The guy entered the mosque. We don’t know what happened” Sefou said. “We see that four or five guys were chasing him.”

Investigators believe the man dashed into the mosque for shelter to escape the group of men pursuing him.

He bumped into the boy, and likely cut him by mistake, then fled.

Sefou said the man might have been on the run after attacking someone in a separate clash at a nearby subway station.

“That’s why they’re chasing him,” he said. “I don’t know why he entered the mosque.”

The imam said he walked with the boy and his family to the 41st Precinct stationhouse about five blocks away.