UK police respond to stabbing 'attack,' shoot suspect near Manchester synagogue

LONDON -- A vehicle was driven toward a crowd of people and a man was stabbed near a synagogue in Manchester, a northern British city, police said."One man has been shot, believed to be the offender," the Greater Manchester Police said on social media.The incident occurred outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in a northern suburb of the city on Thursday morning, law enforcement said.Emergency personnel work in a cordon on Middleton Road following an incident outside a synagogue in north Manchester, Britain, Oct.2, 2025.Phil Noble/ReutersPolice said at least four people had been injured, "with injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds." A member of the public told responding officers "he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public," along with a man being stabbed, police said.Firearms officers responded to the call, police said.Police said they had declared the major incident, along with a "PLATO" designation, a law enforcement shorthand that means the incident was being treated as a potential marauding terrorist attack.Emergency services at the scene of a stabbing incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Thursday Oct.

2, 2025.Peter Byrne/APThursday is Yom Kippur, which is considered the holiest day of the year in Judaism.Popular ReadsThe US government has shut down.Here's what to knowOct 1, 12:01 AMGovernment shutdown updates: Trump vows to cut 'waste' as shutdown enters 2nd day2 hours agoSniper opens fire on Dallas ICE facility, killing 1 detainee, wounding 2: DHSSep 24, 6:39 PMBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a post to X that he was "appalled by the attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall.""The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific," the prime minister added.A police officer stands on duty at a cordon near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on Oct...