The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said two victims had died of injuries after a car and a knife attack outside an synagogue in the north of the city on Thursday.
The attacker was shot by the armed police and was later confirmed by bomb settlement experts to be dead after investigation on his person for potential explosives.
GMP said in a statement in a statement, “The Greater Manchester Police may confirm that two people have died after a major incident outside Heton Park Hebrew Congress, Middleton Road, Kitrapsol.”
“We can confirm that three people have died, including criminals, who were shot by GMP firearm authorities,” Police said in a later statement,
The Prime Minister Kir Strandmer, King Charles III and other political leaders gave the voice of resentment and grief in the attack during Jewish religious holiday Yome Kippur.
What happened during the Manchester synagogue attack?
Police said on Thursday that they were responding to an incident outside an addition to Middleton Road in Manchester, a member of the public reported a car to be stabbed.
The police had declared a major incident in 9:37 AM (0837 GMT/UTC) at the local time (0837 GMT/UTC) outside the Heton Park Hebrew Congressman Synagogue in Kharpsaul north of the city, and said that the authorities shot the shots a minute later.
The GMP stated that paramedics were on the spot and four members of the public were injured, both injuries “vehicles and knife wounds”.
The North West Ambulance said in a statement, “Our crew treated patients at the scene and rushed four patients to the hospital with serious injuries. Our resources remain on the scene to support the ongoing response to the incident.”
Police said they issued oral warnings and fired the warning shots, which the suspect did not pay attention before shooting and disabled.
Officials announced a terrorist attack incident, 2 others arrested
“The attacker has been shot dead by the police on Thursday, Chief Assistant Commissioner Lawrence Taylor, head of the Metropolitan Police Expert Operations. “Three other members of the public are in critical condition.”
Taylor said that the police had made two other arrests and “Based on what we know,” the anti -terrorism police declared the attack as a terrorist incident.
“Police forces are controlling across the country: in the synagogue, at Jewish sites, and more widely influenced by the incident for all those communities,” Taylor said. “We want every piece of intelligence and the line of investigation be examined.”
Strandmer ‘waste’ urges people to escape from the region
Manchester Mayor Andy Bernham told the local BBC Radio that it seems to be a major event, but because “the immediate danger ends.”
Like the police, Bernham advised people to avoid the area as an answer to emergency services.
This attack matches Yom Kipping with religious holidays.
The UK Prime Minister Kir Stmper wrote online, “I am happy with an attack in an synagogue in Kharpsaul.” “The fact that it is on Yom Kipping the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, it all performs more erosion.”
Strandmer stated that he was leaving an European summit in Denmark, who was back in the UK in the UK to preside over a so -called “Cobra” (Cabinet Office Briefing Room), which meets the committees coordinating the government’s response to national crises.
“I am already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed across the country and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe.”
King Charles III said in a statement that he was “deeply shocked and unhappy” from the attack, “especially on such an important day for the Jewish community.”
Manchester is home to about 30,000 Jewish people, making it the second largest Jewish community in Britain after London.
Edited by: Wesley Dakri