Deadly rampage at UK synagogue was a 'terrorist attack'

Prime Minister Keir Starmer rushed back from a leaders' summit in Copenhagen after the attack. Photo: EPA PHOTO

An assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue in northern England and then began stabbing them, killing two and seriously wounding four in a terrorist attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year.

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Officers shot and killed the suspect, Greater Manchester Police said.

But it took authorities some time to confirm he was dead because of concerns that he had an explosive.

The Metropolitan Police in London, who lead counter-terrorism policing operations, declared th