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..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.'
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.'
