UK police accidentally shot victim in synagogue attack

UK police say they accidentally shot a victim who died in the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, as well as one of the survivors, as they attempted to stop an attacker who appeared to be wearing an explosive belt.

In Thursday's attack two men, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed after a UK man of Syrian descent drove a car into pedestrians and then began stabbing people outside Manchester's Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

The attacker, shot dead by officers at the scene, was not carrying a firearm, said Greater Manchester Police chief constable Steve Watson although one of those killed suffered a gunshot wound.

"It follows therefore this injury may have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen con