- Manchester police activate the terror response protocol.
- PM Starmer presides over the emergency meeting after leaving the summit early.
- King Charles, Israel condemns the attack against Yom Kippur as horrible.
Two people died on Thursday and three seriously injured outside a synagogue full in Manchester in a car and a stabbing attack, and the suspicious believes that shot dead by the United Kingdom police.
While the Jewish community marked the Yom Kippur party in the city of the Northwest, the police were called to the incident, activating a national terrorism response protocol.
The attack hit days before the second anniversary of October 7, 2023 of Hamas, incursions on Israe, L, which caused a fierce offensive in Gaza, inflaming passions in Britain.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer quickly condemned the attack as “horrible”, and announced that security was being driven in the United Kingdom synagogues.
He left a European political summit in Denmark early to preside over an emergency security meeting in London.
King Carlos III said that he and Queen Camilla were “deeply shocked and saddened upon learning of the horrible attack in Manchester, especially on such a significant day for the Jewish community.”
Greater Manchester police declared an “major incident” shortly after 9:30 am (0830 GMT) after the officers were called to the Synagogue of the Heaton Park Congregation in the Crumpall neighborhood.
Initially, the force said that the paramedics treated four people for “injuries caused by both the wounds of the vehicle and the white weapon” while confirming that the firearms officers had shot a man “who believes he was the offender.”
In a matter of hours, he announced that two people had died and the alleged offender fired by the officers “also believed he was deceased.”
Police said death could not be confirmed due to “suspicious articles in his person,” noting that a bomb disposal unit was in place.
Three people were also in a “serious condition,” the police added.
Starmer said he was horrified and promised to “do everything possible to keep our Jewish community safe.”
“The fact that this took place in Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, makes it even more horrible,” he added.
Israel’s Embassy in the United Kingdom said it was “abhorrent and deeply distressing” that “such an act of violence must be perpetrated in the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar.”
“The safety of Jewish communities in the United Kingdom must be guaranteed,” he added about X.
Police said the officers responded for the first time to the public calls on a car that led people outside the synagogue, as well as reports that a security guard had been attacked with a knife.
A witness told him BBC radio He saw the police shoot a man after a car accident.
“They give him a couple of warnings, he didn’t hear until they opened fire,” he said.
“He went down to the floor, and then began to rise again, and then shot him again.”
Police said that “a large number of people who worshiped in the synagogue … were retained inside while the immediate area was safe,” but then evacuated.
The mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, told the BBC Police “had treated him very quickly with surprising support from the public members.”
He urged people to “not speculate on social networks”, while the Jewish community “will be very concerned about the news.”
The city, famous worldwide for its two Football Clubs of the Premier League and Industrial History, is the home of one of the largest Jewish communities in the United Kingdom.
According to the Jewish Policies Research Institute for Jewish Policies Research.
Deputy Graham Stringer said the area was home to great Jewish and Muslim communities.
“In general, community relationships are excellent among all different ethnic groups and religious groups,” he told BBC radio Manchester.
The Community Security Trust (CST), a Jewish beneficial organization that records antiseemitic incidents, said he was “working with the local police and Jewish community.”
“This seems to be a terrible attack on the most sacred day of the Jewish year,” CST added.
The city has witnessed several mortal terrorist attacks, especially in 2017 when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade suicide bomb outside an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena.
He killed 22 people, some of them children and wounded hundreds more.
