Overview

• Two worshippers were killed and three others were seriously injured after a vehicle-and-knife assault outside Heaton Park synagogue on Yom Kippur, and armed officers shot the suspect within about seven minutes of the first call.
• Police identified the attacker as Jihad al‑S., a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian origin, and said he had been on bail after a recent arrest over a rape allegation, with investigators assessing influence from an extremist Islamist ideology.
• Manchester’s police chief said early forensics indicate 53-year-old Adrian Daulby was fatally struck by a police round and that another person behind the synagogue door suffered a non‑life‑threatening gunshot wound; the other victim was named as 66-year-old Melvin Cravitz.
• Authorities classified the incident as terrorism and reported that six people have now been detained on suspicion of committing, preparing or inciting terrorist acts in connection with the attack.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the scene as security was stepped up at Jewish sites nationwide, Scotland Yard urged postponement of a large pro‑Palestine protest in London, and tensions flared at a vigil where Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was booed.