According to police, there was a run over followed by knife blows outside the scene; Episode happens during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the day of forgiveness
Four people were injured on Thursday (2), in a run-over followed by a knife attack outside a synagogue in Manchester,, police said. The attack occurred during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the day of forgiveness. Emergency services arrived at 9:41 am (5:41 am Brasília) and attended “four people with injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds,” police said on social network X.
Police said they shot the suspect, who did not survive. The mayor of the great Manchester, Andy Burnham, told the BBC that the “immediate danger seems to have passed.” “I can only imagine how people are feeling about this news – the fear it will bring,” he said. He added that he was impressed by the speed of the police and apparently shot in the suspect seven minutes after the first reports.
‘Horrible attack’
The prime minister said in a statement that he was “dismayed” with the attack, adding that “the fact that this happened on Yom Kippur, the sacred day of the Jewish calendar, makes everything even more horrible.”
Police said the suspect did not have access to the synagogue, Hebrew congregation of Heaton Park, and could not immediately confirm the state of health of man or injured people.
Images recorded by a witness and published on Facebook showed two armed police with their rifles pointed to the alleged aggressor on the floor outside the synagogue, while a seriously wounded victim lay nearby.
One of the police ordered people at the Synagogue gates to retreat, shouting, “He has a bomb, go away.” Moments later, the suspect of the attack seemed to try to get up and the police fired at least one shot. The man fell to the floor.
The Jewish community has “seen an increase in anti -Semitism incidents in recent times,” said the mayor of Manchester, “and has lived with an even greater state of anxiety due to the times we live in.”
See Keir Strmer Pronouncement:
I’m appalled by the attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall.
The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific.
My thoughts are with the loved ones of all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency…
– Keir Starmer (@keir_starmer)
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Nicolas Robert
