Overview

• Greater Manchester Police were alerted at 9:31 a.m. to reports of a car hitting people and a stabbing outside Heaton Park Synagogue on Middleton Road in Crumpsall.
• Police say at least four people were injured by both vehicle impact and knife wounds during the incident.
• Officers fired shots at 9:38 a.m. and struck a man believed to be the attacker, whose condition has not been disclosed.
• The incident occurred during Yom Kippur, and officials said the immediate danger appears over while urging the public to avoid the area.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was horrified and curtailed his time at a Copenhagen summit, as emergency services classified the situation as a major incident.