"About 9.30am (08:30 GMT) on Thursday, a man drove his car into people near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall in the north of Manchester before emerging to attack others with a knife. list of 3 itemsend of list The synagogue's security staff and members of the public prevented him from entering the building before police arrived and fatally shot the assailant, who appeared to be wearing an explosive device, police said. Four injured people were admitted to hospital in serious condition."
"Standing with some of his family on the corner of a nearby road with a police helicopter hovering overhead, 23-year-old Zaki said he still can't believe what happened. I heard the shots this morning, he told Al Jazeera. It didn't seem believable. I thought it was fireworks. Zaki echoed the comments of many who gathered around the synagogue. These things don't happen here, onlookers said. Crumpsall has long been a multicultural area. Everyone in our community gets on well, Zaki said. Our neighbours are Jewish."
A man drove his car into people near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall and then attacked others with a knife. Synagogue security personnel and members of the public prevented entry before police fatally shot the assailant, who appeared to be wearing an explosive device. Two people were killed and four injured were admitted to hospital in serious condition. Two arrests have been made. The identity and motives of the attacker have not been disclosed. Local residents expressed shock and emphasised longstanding multicultural community relations, noting no apparent local divisions despite wider conflicts.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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