LONDON — British police said two people were killed and three others were seriously wounded on Thursday after an attacker drove a car into people outside a synagogue in Manchester in northwest England and stabbed members of the public.

Greater Manchester Police said officers shot and killed the suspect.

An armed police officer at the scene of a stabbing incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Oct. 2. Peter Byrne, PA

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The early response

Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in Crumpsall, a suburb in the north of Manchester, shortly after 9:30 a.m. by a member of the public, who said he had witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public and that one man had been stabbed. Th

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