Synagogue attack update: Police say 2 arrests after 2 killed and man shot dead

Synagogue attack update: Police say 2 arrests after 2 killed and man shot dead View Image

Two people have been arrested over the attack at a synagogue in Manchester in which two people were killed and a man was shot dead by armed police, the Met’s head of counter terrorism policing Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said, adding it had been declared a “terrorist incident”.

Two people have died and a man has been fatally shot by armed police after a car was driven at pedestrians and a person was stabbed in a suspected terror attack outside a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

Greater Manchester Police said three other people are in a serious condition following the attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road in Crumpsall, on Thursda