Overview

• Police received a 9:31 a.m. call and shot the attacker at 9:38 outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation after a vehicle-ramming and stabbing spree.
• The two people killed were identified as Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, while three others remain in serious condition.
• The suspect was named as Jihad al‑Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent, who was fatally shot by firearms officers at the scene.
• A vest on the suspect that appeared to be an explosive device was later deemed not viable, and Operation Plato was declared as bomb-disposal teams secured the area.
• The Metropolitan Police Counter‑Terrorism Command has taken over from Greater Manchester Police and arrested two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s on suspicion of terrorism offences, with patrols increased at Jewish sites across the UK.