The British police announced on Thursday that a suspected attack on the Manchester Synagogue is a British citizen of Syrian origin. Police shot and detained the attacker and detained three people, reports TASR according to AFP reports and Sky News and CNN stations.
“Now we can confirm that although the formal identification has not yet taken place, we believe that the person responsible for today’s attack is 35-year-old Jihad Al Shamie. It is a British citizen of Syrian origin,” The anti -terrorist police stated in the statement. Previously, the police reported that they had shot the attacker.
Sky News reports that its name did not appear in any records of the British Government’s anti -terrorist program. At the same time, the police have confirmed that three suspects whom she detained for ‘Suspicion of the execution, preparation and incitement of terrorist acts’. There are two men around 30 years and a woman around 60 years of age.
Police considers an attack on the synagogue in the British city of Manchester as an act of terrorism. Two men were declared dead on the spot, and three other men remain in a hospital with serious injuries, the police explained. One of the men suffered a stab injury and the other was injured by a vehicle involved in the attack. The third man later came to the hospital with an injury that could suffer when the police stopped the attacker.
The target of the attack in Manchester, which was reported around 9.30 am local time (10.30 CEST), became the Synagogue of the Hebrew Congregation Heaton Park in the suburbs of Crumpsall, where prayers were on the occasion of the greatest Jewish holiday Jom Kipur (Day of Reconciliation). The Chief of the Countess Police of the Great Manchester Sir Stephen Watson reported that the suspect first hit the car in front of the synagogue and then attacked a knife on a security member. At the time of the attack, there were many believers in the synagogue, but thanks to the immediate reaction of the security and police staff, the attacker did not get inside.
