An attacker on Thursday drove a car among people outside an orderly in Northern England and then stabbed them, two died and three were seriously injured. Jewish The year, the police said.
Officials shot and killed the suspect, more and more Manchester The police said, however, it took some time for the authorities to confirm that he was dead due to concerns that were explosives on him.
The attack occurred when people gathered at Yom Kippur at a orthodox synagogue in the suburban neighborhood of Manchester, the day of atonement and the most serious day in the Jewish calendar.
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More than 1,500 incidents were reported in the first half of the year, the second largest report since the record set a year ago.
“This is the worst dream of every rabi or every Jewish person,” Rabbi Jonathan Romain said, the head of the Medenhead synagogue and the head of the Rabbinic Court of Great Britain. “Not only this is a sacred day, the most sacred in the Jewish calendar, but it is also the time of the collective assembly.”
Witnesses described a car driving towards the synagogue and then stabbed a stabbing attack
In a series of posts on X, Greater Manchester Police He said that he was called immediately after 9:30 pm at Heton Park Hebrew Circle Aradhan to start services after 9:30 pm. The caller said that he saw that a car was being taken to the members of the public and a person was stabbed.
Chava Levin, who lives next to the synagogue, said that he heard a bang and thought that it could be a fireworks until her husband ran inside his house and said that there was “terrorist attack”.
A witness told him that he had wrongly seen a car driving in the door of the house of worship.
“He thought he might have suffered a heart attack,” said Levin. “Secondly he got out of the car, he started stabbing anyone near him. He went to the security guard and tried to break into the synagogue.”
After minutes, the police fired the shots, stating that they believe they have killed the attacker.
On social media, the video showed the police with guns, who lay on the ground under a blue star of David on the brick wall of the synagogue.
On the video, an audience can be heard saying that the man had a bomb and was trying to explode it. When the man tried to stand up, a gun bullet came out and he fell to the ground.
Police later exploded an explosion to get into the suspect’s car.
Manchester was the site of Britain’s deadliest attack in recent years, in 2017, an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people.
Officers declare an emergency
Soon after the attack, the police announced the national code-word used by “Plato,” National Code-Word used by police and emergency services, when responded to “a terrorist attack”.
Prime Minister Kir Stmper said he was affected by the attack and additional police officers will be deployed in meetings in Britain.
He flew home early from a peak of European leaders in Copenhagen, Denmark to preside over a meeting of the government’s emergency committee.
“The fact that it is on Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all more frightening,” Stramemer said on the X platform.
Raja Charles III said that he and Queen Camilla were surprised and unhappy to learn about the attack on such an important day for the Jewish community.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with all the people affected by this horrific event and we greatly appreciate the sharp works of emergency services,” he said on his social media feed.
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Pylus and Melley reported from London.