A vigil was held in Manchester to pay tribute to those who were killed at a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, in what UK police have declared a terrorist attack.

Rabbi Daniel Walker, the rabbi of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue that was attacked, said the "pain is very raw".

"We haven't even entered the recovery stage, but we are strong and we are going to recover. We are going to rebuild. We are going to continue, and we're going to honor the memory of those very good men who lost their lives in this horrible attack", he added.

Greater Manchester Police said the two people who died during the attack were Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, both members of the local Jewish community.

"It's immeasurably hard. I have no words to express how hard it is, but I have to stress our resolve", Rabbi Daniel Walker said.

The assailant rammed a car into people at the synagogue and then attacked with a knife. The attack left two people dead and at least three seriously wounded.

Police fatally shot the suspect, who they say was Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent who came to the U.K. as a young child and became a citizen in 2006.

Three other people — two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s — were arrested on suspicion of preparing or committing acts of terrorism. They are in custody but have not been charged.

Police also said that one of the three people who were hospitalized also suffered a gunshot wound. One of the others sustained a stab wound while the second was struck by the car driven by the attacker.

The U.K. has traditionally been a safe country for Jewish people though antisemitic incidents in the U.K. have risen following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza.