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Two people have been killed and a suspect has been shot dead by police officers in a stabbing and car attack declared a “terrorist incident” at a synagogue in Manchester on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur on Thursday.

Greater Manchester Police said three members of the public remain in a serious condition in what they initially declared as a “major incident” at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Middleton Road in the Crumpsall area of the northern England city.

The Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command later confirmed two arrests had been made in what the force is now treating as a counter-terrorism investigation.

“Based on what we know, counter-terrorism police have declared this a terrorist incident,” Met Police Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor,

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