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LONDON (AP) — Police said Thursday that four people have been
injured after a car was driven at members of the public and a
man was stabbed outside a synagogue in the north of Manchester.
The incident, which took place on Yom Kippur, one of the holiest
day in the Jewish calendar, is believed to be over after a man,
believed to be the offender, was shot by police.
In a series of posts on X, Greater Manchester Police they were
called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in
Crumpsall shortly after 9:30 a.m. by a member of the public, who
said he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the
public and that one man had been stabbed.
It said that minutes later shots were fired by firearms
officers.
“One man has been shot, believed to be the offender,” it added.
It said four people were being treated for injuries caused by
both the vehicle and stab wounds.
Police said it had “declared Plato,” the national code-word used
by police and emergency services when responding to a “marauding
terror attack." That does not mean it has been declared a
terrorist incident.
Andy Burnham, the mayor of the Greater Manchester area, told BBC
Radio the “immediate danger appears to be over.”
Manchester was the site of Britain’s deadliest attack in recent
years, the 2017 suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert that
killed 22 people.
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