Updated October 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM PDT

LONDON — At least two people were killed and several injured in a car-ramming and stabbing outside a synagogue in northern England on a Jewish holiday Thursday, an attack police called a "terrorist incident."

The attack occurred as Jewish community members were gathering at Manchester's Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue for Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.

Greater Manchester Police officers shot and killed a suspected attacker and arrested three suspects in connection with the incident.

Later Thursday, the police identified the man they believed was responsible for the attack: Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent. The police said there was no record of the man in a U.K. counterterrorism program that works to

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