Two people were killed on Thursday and four wounded when a man ploughed a car into a crowd outside a packed Manchester synagogue on a sombre Jewish holiday and then embarked on a stabbing spree, UK police said.

Police said they shot dead the suspect and arrested two other people within hours of the attack which occurred as Jewish communities around the world marked Yom Kippur, the holiest holiday in the Jewish calendar.

The two dead victims were Jewish, police in the northwest English city confirmed, as London counter-terror police declared it a “terrorist incident”. Four other people were seriously wounded.

The dead suspect’s identity had been “established” but the counter-terror police, which are leading the investigation, said it was too soon to release it publicly.

The attacker wor

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