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A politician working to improve relations between communities of Greater Manchester says she is ‘broken for the Jewish community’ after a fatal synagogue attack.

Police descended on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am on Thursday morning (October 2).

Members of the public ‘witnessed a car being driven towards several people, and one person had been stabbed’, mayor Andy Burnham said shortly afterwards.

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Greater Manchester Police has since confirmed its officers shot the male suspect dead. Two victims have died and three others are seriously injured.

Coun Arooj Shah, Oldham council leader and the Greater

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