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muriel_volestrangler

(104,893 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:44 AM Yesterday

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
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Police shoot suspect as at least two people killed in car and knife attack at Manchester synagogue (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Yesterday OP
Damn Solly Mack Yesterday #1
Picture of the suspect with things (bomb?) tied around his waist: EX500rider Yesterday #2
Not enough police presence? question everything 22 hrs ago #3
The attacker was shot dead by the police within 7 minutes. maxsolomon 21 hrs ago #4
Wow, his name was literally "Jihad" EX500rider 16 hrs ago #5
Should have been a red flag when he was let in Polybius 16 hrs ago #6
When he was under 5? muriel_volestrangler 7 hrs ago #7
Why not? Polybius 5 hrs ago #8
Because the UK aren't fascists? (nt) muriel_volestrangler 5 hrs ago #9

maxsolomon

(37,454 posts)
4. The attacker was shot dead by the police within 7 minutes.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:32 PM
21 hrs ago

It sounds as if they responded immediately. They just couldn't prevent it from starting.

EX500rider

(11,991 posts)
5. Wow, his name was literally "Jihad"
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:21 PM
16 hrs ago
The attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man described as being of Syrian decent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd93x0ql0do

muriel_volestrangler

(104,893 posts)
7. When he was under 5?
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:09 AM
7 hrs ago
According to the force he is "a British citizen of Syrian descent".

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)
8. Why not?
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 05:17 AM
5 hrs ago

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.

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