Two dead, suspect shot in attack near UK synagogue

Armed police were called to the scene of the attack near a synagogue in northern Manchester. Photo: AP PHOTO

Two people are dead and three others are seriously wounded after a person reportedly drove a car into pedestrians and a stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in northern England on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

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Greater Manchester Police said officers had shot the suspect after being called to the scene at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the Crumpsall district of the city in northern England.

Police acted after a witness said a car h