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"MANCHESTER, England (AP) An assailant drove a car at people outside a synagogue in northern England on Thursday and then began stabbing people, killing two and wounding three in an attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said.
The suspect was also believed to be dead after being shot by officers, but that couldn't immediately be confirmed because of concerns he had an explosive on him, Greater Manchester Police said. A bomb disposal team was at the scene.
The incident took place as people gathered at an Orthodox synagogue on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.
In a series of posts on X, Greater Manchester Police said they were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall shortly after 9:30 a.m. by a member of the public, who said he had witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public and that one man had been stabbed."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/police-scene-reported-stabbing-synagogue-093920485.htm
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(51,059 posts)sarisataka
(22,024 posts)Police said that Al-Shamie had not been referred to the UK Home Offices Prevent program, according to the information currently available. The program is a central plank of Britains strategy to combat terrorism.
Alongside Al-Shamie, police said that three other suspects two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s are in custody and have been arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.
Polybius
(20,925 posts)Bonkers UK policy.
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(92,719 posts)can you imagine how he was raised and what he was taught to believe by people that would give him that name.