MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester is coming to terms with the latest tragedy to befall the city.

The attack on Thursday at a synagogue came eight years after a suicide bomber targeted an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena venue, killing 22 people and injuring many others.

In 1996, the IRA detonated a bomb outside a shopping mall that injured more than 200 people. That followed a bomb attack in 1992.

Such incidents are still rare in the U.K., but Manchester has become all too familiar with tragedy.

“Manchester people are strong and we will rally together as we always do,” read one message sent by an unidentified listener to BBC Radio Manchester on Friday.

There were many more messages of defiance from people in a city determined not to be broken. “We are Manchester a

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