Overview

• Police say a driver rammed pedestrians and then stabbed people outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation during Yom Kippur before firearms officers shot him within minutes.
• Two people were killed and three others remain in serious condition, and the assailant died at the scene after being shot by officers.
• Counter-terrorism policing has taken over the case, Operation Plato was invoked, and bomb-disposal teams later assessed the suspect’s vest as not a viable explosive device.
• Security has been strengthened at Jewish sites across the UK after the Prime Minister convened a COBRA meeting and national leaders issued statements of condemnation.
• Police report several arrests linked to the inquiry, and some outlets have identified the attacker as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent.