"Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said on Thursday that they were responding to an incident outside a synagogue on Middleton Road in Manchester, after a member of the public reported a car being driven towards civilians and a stabbing. Police declared a major incident at 9:37 a.m. local time (0837 GMT/UTC) outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall in the north of the city, and said that officers fired shots one minute later."
""One man has been shot, believed to be the offender," police wrote online. GMP said that paramedics were at the scene and that four members of the public had been injured, caused both "by the vehicle and stab wounds." PM Starmer 'appalled,' mayor urges people to avoid area Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told local BBC radio that it appeared to be a major event but also that "the immediate danger appears to be over.""
""I'm appalled by the attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall," UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote online. "The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific." Starmer said he was leaving a European summit in Denmark early to fly back to the UK to chair a so-called "COBRA" (Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms) meeting of committees coordinating the government response to national crises."
A major incident was declared outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall after a report of a car driven toward civilians and a stabbing. Officers fired shots one minute after the declaration and one man was shot, believed to be the offender. Paramedics treated four members of the public injured by the vehicle and stab wounds. Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the immediate danger appeared to be over but urged people to avoid the area. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attack appalling, is returning from Denmark, and said extra police assets are being deployed to synagogues.
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