Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest

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Two people have died and attacker also shot in synagogue attack, police confirm
Two people have died after a suspected terror attack outside a synagogue in Crumpsall by a man who was shot dead by police, Greater Manchester Police said.

The man believed to be the attacker was shot by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers and is also believed to be dead.

However, police said it cannot currently be confirmed due to safety issues related to “suspicious items on his person”. The bomb disposal unit has been called and is at the scene.

Three other people remain in a serious condition, police said in a statement.

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Police declare Manchester synagogue attack 'terrorist incident'
Assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor, national head of counter-terrorism policing, says the attacker has been shot dead by the police and it believed counter-terrorism police know his idenity.

“Based on what we know, counter-terrorism police have declared this a terrorist incident,” he says at a press conference outside Scotland Yard in London.

There have been two additional arrests, he says.

Taylor says an attack on the Jewish community on Yom Kippur is “devastating” and says the police are “mobilising fast” to reassure the Jewish community across the country.

 

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