'Terrorist incident': UK police on synagogue attack; 2 arrested

The UK police on Thursday declared that the car-and-knife attack at a Manchester synagogue during Yom Kippur was a terrorist incident. Also Read | Manchester synagogue attack: 'Get back, he has a bomb' - Video shows cops corner and neutralise suspect; 2 dead “Based on what we know, counter-terrorism police have declared this a terrorist incident,” Laurence Taylor, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and national head of counter-terrorism policing, told reporters at a press conference, according to The Associated Press. The Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command later said two people had been arrested in connection with the rampage. The attack, initially treated as a “major incident” by Greater Manchester Police, unfolded at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation