Updated October 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM PDT

LONDON — At least two people were killed and four injured in a car-ramming and stabbing outside a synagogue in northern England on a Jewish holiday on Thursday, an attack police called a "terrorist incident."

The attack occurred as Jewish community members were gathering at Manchester's Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue for Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.

Police officers shot and killed a suspected attacker and said they arrested two other people in connection to the incident, but did not disclose their identities.

"This has been officially declared a terrorist incident and the investigation is now being led by the Counter Terrorist Police," Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson said in a statement .

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