A major incident has been declared after a stabbing attack and car ramming outside a synagogue in north Manchester .

Here is the police statement in full after officers are believed to have shot someone dead. A police spokeswoman said: "We’re responding to an incident outside a synagogue on Middleton Road in Manchester.

"Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed.

"Firearms officers were deployed at 9.34am as police continued to receive further reports from members of the public that a security guard had been attacked with a knife.

"GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots w

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