Overview

• Greater Manchester Police said a car was driven at pedestrians outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on Middleton Road at 9:31 a.m. local time before stabbings began.
• Police designated the case a terrorist incident following the vehicle-ramming and knife attacks outside the synagogue.
• Officers shot dead the suspected assailant, and two additional suspects were taken into custody.
• Police said the attacker killed two people and injured three others during the assault.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer cut short a trip to Denmark to lead an emergency meeting and directed extra police deployments to Jewish places of worship nationwide.