Breaking news... At least 2 People killed in Northern English city Synagogue

[hollydolly]

..at 9.30am this morning...

This is the 'terrorist' with a suspected suicide belt who killed at least two people outside a Manchester synagogue before being shot by police.

Witnesses say a car was driven into a crowd outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue and a man stabbed before marksmen arrived at the scene.
The horror unfolded just after 9.30am today on Yom Kippur, the holiest date in the Jewish calendar.


Greater Manchester Police has now confirmed two victims have died and three remain in a serious condition.

The suspect is also believed to be dead, but this will not be confirmed until a bomb disposal unit has dealt with a device that is believed to be strapped to his body.

Police said it had 'declared Plato' - the national code-word used by police and emergency services when responding to a 'marauding terror attack'.

Video shared on social media appears to show armed police officers pointing guns at someone laying on the ground as one screams to onlookers: 'Everyone move back, he has a bomb, go away.'

The person on the ground is seen starting to get up before there is the sound of a gunshot and they fall to the ground. Another person is also shown lying motionless on the ground outside the synagogue gates with blood around their head.

A white lorry marked 'bomb disposal' later arrived at the scene, and went behind the cordon outside the synagogue.

Police sources said it was 'too early' to determine the attacker's motivation.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said: 'Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public and one man had been stabbed.'

The force said it declared a major incident at 9.37am.

The statement continued: 'Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Paramedics arrived at the scene at 9.41am and are tending to members of the public.

'We are grateful to the member of the public whose quick response to what they witnessed allowed our swift action, and as a result the offender was prevented from entering the synagogue.'

 

[WhatInThe]

Horrific. Said after he got out of the car he started stabbing people immediately. People were still probably shocked and confused from the car ramming alone.

RIP those killed speedy recovery to survivors.

 

[Pepper]

Shock & anguish, but not surprising. Thank you @hollydolly for delivering this news, sad though it is.

 

[againstthegrain]

"an eye for an eye, soon half the world will be blind"

 

[Rae]

What a sad day for the people there. Best wishes to all of them.

 

[hollydolly]

I've just got home... and listening to the car radio, the news is just absolutely full of this..... just terrible...

fortunately according to some Jewish journalist.. the Synagogue was yet to be full of people. Some people were on their way with their families, only to get panicked phone calls telling them not to come, ..... can you imagine the horror of that?

It'll be interesting to see what nationality he was....

However to do this at anytime is awful but to do it on the Holiest day... is sickening... ,..now there's massive police presence at Synagogues throughout the country today

 

[AnnieA]

Very sad ...but not surprising in the UK these days. I've read in numerous sources over the past few years that Jewish Brits are increasingly fearful of their safety.

 

[Lilac]

My prayers & thoughts to the victims & their families. So sad to go to your house of worship only to have this happen on a holy day.

 

[hollydolly]

Very sad ...but not surprising in the UK these days. I've read in numerous sources over the past few years that Jewish Brits are increasingly fearful of their safety.

yes I've read that too.. and here particularly in North Lodon, there's a HUGE Jewish community... and I have never witnessed anyone be attacked, or abused verbally or physically in any way..

That's not to say it's not being done somewhere but I've never seen it...

 

[Lilac]

Video shared on social media appears to show armed police officers pointing guns at someone laying on the ground as one screams to onlookers: 'Everyone move back, he has a bomb, go away.'

The person on the ground is seen starting to get up before there is the sound of a gunshot and they fall to the ground. Another person is also shown lying motionless on the ground outside the synagogue gates with blood around their head.

The person who warned the first responders that the attacker had a bomb saved a lot of lives. To have the presence of mind to think of that with the chaos going on around him/her was the actions of a true hero. Too sad that person was also shot.

 

[Alice November]

The attacker’s first name is Jihad, really says something about it doesn’t it? I don’t think any Jew was surprised this happened. All the chants of ‘death death to the IDF‘ that have been yelled for months on the streets in UK cities was a huge give away that chanters and their followers want a lot of people murdered. Imagine attacking a synagogue on Yom Kippur and murdering two Jews and hospitalising three more. It is vile and disgusting. The Jihadists will keep killing until they take everything they want is my best guess.

 

[hollydolly]

Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent...

Two men aged in their 30s and a woman in her 60s have been arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police added.

The horror began at 9.31am when Al-Shamie - who is yet to be formally identified -rammed into people with a car before stabbing a man outside the synagogue.

Two Jewish men were killed and three others seriously injured in the attack, which unfolded on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Police said officers were 'working to understand the motivation behind the attack'. Earlier the Daily Mail exclusively revealed that the suspect was an Islamic terrorist.

Al-Shamie's name has reportedly not appeared in initial searches of police and security service records, and he is not thought to have been under investigation.

Further checks are being carried out to see if any of his details appear anywhere in records of other investigations.

 

[againstthegrain]

Is there a link btwn the attacks on Jews around the world and the way the Israelis are prosecuting the war in Gaza?

 

[seadoug]

Is there a link btwn the attacks on Jews around the world and the way the Israelis are prosecuting the war in Gaza?

I'll take a balanced approach here and just say it is happening on both sides in the US... anti-Muslim/Arab bias and Antisemitic incidents.

Why the Gaza War Has Sparked a Wave of Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the US

 

[hollydolly]

Oh good grief it gets worse


In a statement this morning, Greater Manchester Police said it is not believed that attacker Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, was armed with a gun, and that both individuals were shot by officers.

Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, were killed following the attack outside Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on Thursday morning.

Police have not confirmed which of the men suffered a gunshot wound.

Syrian-born Al-Shamie, who came to the UK as a young child and was granted British citizenship in 2006, was also shot dead by police. He was not known to counter-terror police or security services prior to Thursday's attack

 

[smiley]

according to biblical sources the Jews and Arabs started out as brothers?

 

[smiley]

Britain was once Empire of many world globes - remember Victoria?? - now it has become multicultural and the worm has turned - if you are multicultural then respect other cultures don't push them around too much??

 

[AnnieA]

according to biblical sources the Jews and Arabs started out as brothers?

Muhammed incorporated some of the Old Testament when he cooked up Islam in the 600s but he changed things like Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac into Ishmael and claimed Ismael as his direct ancestor. That's where the 'brothers' thing comes in. Muhammed used bits of the Christianity, the Jewish Old Testament, Zoroastrianism and who knows what else plus added himself in as "Messenger of God" and began seeking converts ...by warfare when peaceful efforts failed, leading eight battles and nearly twenty raids in a ten year span.

 

[Irishdude]

I'll take a balanced approach here and just say it is happening on both sides in the US... anti-Muslim/Arab bias and Antisemitic incidents.

Why the Gaza War Has Sparked a Wave of Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the US

I'll take a non-balanced approach. I don't see Jews in the US driving into mosques and stabbing people.

 

[Irishdude]

Britain was once Empire of many world globes - remember Victoria?? - now it has become multicultural and the worm has turned - if you are multicultural then respect other cultures don't push them around too much??

Many Muslims strut around the UK bragging about how they will outbreed the infidels and impose Sharia law. I suppose you are ok with that?

 

[Aunt Bea]

IMO it’s a mistake to buy into all of the them against us hype when these tragic events happen, mentally disturbed people come in every size, shape, religion, culture and lash out at a never ending unpredictable assortment of victims for various sick and twisted reasons.

 

[HoneyNut]

mentally disturbed people come in every size, shape, religion

In addition to 'disturbed people' there is the problem of 'religious people' who follow a religion that tells them that murdering is a correct thing to do.