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Counter-terror police have issued a major update on the investigation into the Manchester synagogue attack.

They have revealed terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie called 999 during last Thursday's attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Crumpsall and 'pledged allegiance to Islamic State'. It has also emerged the 35-year-old, who was shot dead by armed police at the scene, was carrying two knives and was wearing a 'hoax device'.

Al-Shamie drove into worshippers outside the Middleton Road synagogue at around 9.30am before attacking them with a knife. Two Jewish men, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed in the attack.

Mr Daulby is believed to have been hit by police gunfire as firearms officers shot Al-Shamie. Six people have been arrested on suspicion of terror offe

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