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The British police have declared that a mortal uproar in a synagogue that killed two people on the most sacred day of the Jewish year was a terrorist attack.
The commissioner of the Laurence Taylor Metropolitan Police in Manchester said the assailant was killed by agents and two other suspects were arrested. He did not provide more information about arrests.
The authorities said the suspect put his car in pedestrians and began to stab people. Three other people were seriously injured.
He took the police for some time to confirm that he was dead due to the concerns that he had an explosive about him.
Greater Manchester police said they were called to the Synagogue of the Heaton Park Congregation in Crumpall shortly after 9:30 am local time by a public member. The person he called said that he had witnessed a car driven to the members of the public and that a man had been stabbed, according to the police.
Police said the officers shot minutes later.
The Great Manchester police confirmed that the suspect was dead after calling their bomb elimination unit to the scene as a precaution.
Police said the injured are in serious condition without elaborating. The faithful inside the synagogue were not among the injured.
“We thank the public member whose quick response to what they witnessed allowed our rapid action, and as a result the criminal was prevented from entering the synagogue,” said a police spokesman in a publication on social networks.
Chava Lewin, who lives next to the synagogue, said he heard an explosion and thought it could be an artificial fire until her husband ran inside her house and said there had been an attack.
A witness told him that he saw a car that was driving erratically against the doors of the cult house.
“She thought he had a heart attack,” Lewin said. “At the time he left the car, he began to stab anyone near him. It was for the security guard and tried to enter the synagogue.”
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The video on social networks showed the police with weapons pointing to a person who lay on the ground under a blue star of David on the brick wall of the synagogue.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that additional police officers would be deployed in synagogues throughout the United Kingdom
Starmer, in Copenhagen for a summit, in a publication on social networks thanked the lifeguards and said that their thoughts were with the victims and their loved ones.
“I am horrified by the attack in a synagogue in Crumpall,” said Starmer. “The fact that this took place in Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, makes it even more horrible.”
Starmer flew again from the summit to preside over a meeting of the Government emergency committee, Cobra.
“This is the worst nightmare of the rabbi or each Jewish person,” Rabbi Jonathan Romain of Sinagoga de Maidenhead and head of the Rabbinic Court of Great Britain said. “It is not only a sacred day, the most sacred in the Jewish calendar, but it is also a moment of mass gathering, and the moment when the Jewish community, by religious or irlocious, meets together.”
King Charles said that he and Queen Camilla were “deeply shocked and saddened” to know the attack “on such a significant day for the Jewish community.” “
“Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this terrible incident and we greatly appreciate the rapid actions of emergency services,” Charles said in his feed of social networks.
Manchester was the most deadly attack site in Great Britain in recent years, the 2017 suicide bombing in an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people.
