Police shoot suspect as at least two people killed in car and knife attack at Manchester synagogue
Source: The Guardian
Two people have died and three remain in a serious condition after a suspected terror attack outside a synagogue in Crumpsall by a man believed to have been shot dead by police, Greater Manchester police said.
Police shot the suspect after one person was stabbed and a car was driven at members of the public at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue.
The force said it had declared Plato the national codeword used by police and emergency services when responding to a marauding terror attack at 9.37am.
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A third person, a man believed to be the offender, was shot by GMP firearms officers and is also believed to be deceased. It cannot currently be confirmed due to safety issues surround suspicious items on his person. The bomb disposal unit has been called and is now at the scene.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/02/police-at-scene-of-reported-stabbing-at-synagogue-in-manchester
This is Manchester, England, to be clear.
Live BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2703lnww4t
and The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/oct/02/police-reports-stabbing-synagogue-greater-manchester-live

Solly Mack
(95,801 posts)EX500rider
(11,991 posts)
question everything
(51,059 posts)maxsolomon
(37,454 posts)It sounds as if they responded immediately. They just couldn't prevent it from starting.
EX500rider
(11,991 posts)https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd93x0ql0do
Polybius
(20,926 posts)Unreal that it was overlooked.
muriel_volestrangler
(104,893 posts)ITV News understands he was a father and his family had lived in Greater Manchester for at least 30 years.
Al-Shamie was understood to have entered the UK as a young child and been granted British citizenship in 2006 when he was around the age of 16. His father appears to have worked as a trauma surgeon for several NGOs in warzones across the world.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/major-incident-stabbing-synagogue-102938998.html
You'd really ban a family coming into a country in the 90s, because their son was called "Jihad"?
Polybius
(20,926 posts)It would turn out that it would have been the right thing to do, as lives were lost. I'd certainly ban his parents from entering the UK, after naming their kid Jihad.