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Police Shoot Suspected Attacker After Manchester Synagogue Assault Injures Four on Yom Kippur

Officials are investigating motive under national emergency protocols after bomb teams were called over suspicious items.

Overview

  • Greater Manchester Police report a car was driven into pedestrians before stabbings outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Crumpsall.
  • Four people are receiving treatment for injuries caused by both the vehicle and knife attacks, with no official update on their conditions.
  • Armed officers shot a person believed to be the attacker, whose death has not been formally confirmed, and the area remains secured and isolated.
  • Explosive ordnance teams were deployed due to suspicious items, PLATO was activated, and the incident has not been formally designated as terrorism.
  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer returned to chair a COBRA meeting and pledged increased policing at synagogues, as King Charles III voiced shock and the CST cited more than 3,500 antisemitic incidents in the UK last year.