Overview

• Preliminary forensics indicate one of the two fatalities may have resulted from police gunfire, and a hospitalized victim has a non‑life‑threatening gunshot wound.
• The assault outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Crumpsall involved a vehicle ramming followed by knife attacks as the assailant tried to force entry.
• Two members of the Jewish community, aged 53 and 66, were killed and three others remain under treatment after the attack on Jom Kippur.
• Police shot the attacker within minutes; he is believed to be a 35‑year‑old British citizen of Syrian descent, and three additional suspects were arrested on terrorism‑related suspicions.
• Operation Plato was activated and bomb‑disposal teams deployed due to a vest resembling an explosive device, while security for synagogues nationwide has been reinforced and the prime minister visited the scene.