UK Synagogue Attack: 2 Killed, 4 Injured in Car and Stabbing Incident

Thursday Two were killed and three others were seriously injured after a man rammed a car into a crowd and stabbed people at a synagogue in the northern English city of Manchester.

It fell on the day that the worshippers were celebrating Yom Kippur, the most important day of the Jewish calendar.

In a statement on X, Greater Manchester Police did confirm the two deaths, and that the suspect was believed to be deceased.

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Police had first reported that they could not verify the death of the suspect due to suspicious objects found on the body that was being removed by bomb disposal teams. However the force subsequently reported that he was dead on the scene.

At 9:31 a.m. local time (4:31 a.m. ET), police arrived at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall in a section of north Manchester where there is a sizeable Jewish population. According to police, a witness reported that he had seen a car being driven at people and one man was stabbed.

Minutes afterwards, police indicated that a man suspected to be the perpetrator had been shot by the police.

According to police, the event might have been more serious, had it not been a fast-thinking attendee of the congregation who prevented the suspect to enter the building.

“We are grateful to the member of the public whose quick response to what they witnessed allowed our swift action, and as a result the offender was prevented from entering the synagogue,” a spokesperson said.

One of the videos that are uploaded to social media, and which was confirmed by NBC News, depicts a man who lies on the ground outside the synagogue, and the two officers point their guns on him - the man makes an attempt to rise and one of the officers shoots one bullet.

In the same video, a man wearing a Jewish yarmulke is lying in a pool of blood a few yards away.

After the attack, a considerable number of worshippers were held inside the synagogue, but have now been released by police.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was in Copenhagen, the capital of Europe, informed reporters that he was travelling back to London immediately in order to convene a meeting of COBRA, the U.K. emergency responses committee.

"I’m already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country, and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe," he said.

A statement by Israel Embassy in London denounced the attack. “That such an act of violence should be perpetrated on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, in a place of prayer and community, is abhorrent and deeply distressing,” it said.

“This appears to be an appalling attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year,” the group added in a statement on X.

Said the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity offering security services: It was collaborating with the police and the local Jewish community.

He claimed that Mancunians, as people of Manchester are known, would unite as they did after the Manchester bombing in 2017 when 22 people lost their lives after an Ariana Grande concert.

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