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Police have issued an update after a terrorist was shot dead after killing two people in a horror attack outside a synagogue.

Sir Stephen Watson, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, said four people remain in hospital following the terror attack outside a north Manchester synagogue on Thursday morning (October 2).

He said two members of Manchester's Jewish community died as a result of the incident, which happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day for the Jewish calendar.

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Sir Stephen said the attacker had been fatally shot by officers within seven minutes of the initial call reporting the attack, which has been declared a terror event.

Two other people hav

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