LONDON (AP) — An assailant rammed a car into people at a synagogue in northwest England and then attacked with a knife in what authorities have called a terrorist assault that left two people dead and three seriously wounded.
Police fatally shot the suspect in the attack Thursday at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur , the holiest day of the Jewish year, which once again was being observed amid high tensions over the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
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7-minute attack
— At 9:31 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, police were called to the synagogue in the Manchester suburb of Crumpsall, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of London, by a member of the public, who said he had seen a car being driven toward people, and tha