One of the victims who died in Manchester attack likely shot by officers, police say

The police investigation continues at the scene near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, on Friday. Peter Byrne/PA/AP

One of the victims who died in the Manchester synagogue attack was likely shot by armed officers aiming for the killer, police said on Friday.

The admission came the day after at least two Jewish worshipers were killed and three others seriously injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur , the holiest day in Judaism. The suspected attacker was also killed by police.

Manchester police Chief Constable Stephen Watson said that according to a preliminary assessment of the Home Office pathologist, one of the deceased victims “would appear to have suffered a wound cons