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The police identified the attacker as Jihad al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent. They said he had driven a car into people outside the synagogue in Manchester and stabbed others before he was shot and killed by the police.
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Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man of Syrian descent, is named as the synagogue attacker.
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Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson officially declared that the attack at a synagogue in Manchester was a "terrorist incident." The investigation is now being led by counter terrorist police. Two members of Manchester's Jewish community died in the synagogue attack, with others still recovery from their injuries.
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Two Jewish people were killed in a car and stabbing attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.
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At least two people were killed when a man drove a vehicle toward a crowd of people and launched a stabbing attack near a synagogue in Manchester, police said.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, "all the more horrific" for taking place on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.
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