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- Police arrested three other suspects in the attack
LONDON: British police said Thursday the man who attacked people outside a Manchester synagogue before being shot dead by officers was a UK citizen of Syrian origin, with three other suspects detained.
“We can confirm that three suspects are currently in custody and have been arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. They are two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s,” Greater Manchester police said.
Two people were killed on Thursday and four wounded when a man ploughed a car into a crowd outside a packed Manchester synagogue on a sombre Jewish holiday and then embarked on a stabbing spree, UK police said.
Police said they shot dead the suspect and arrested two other people within hours of the attack, which occurred as Jewish communities around the world marked Yom Kippur, the holiest holiday in the Jewish calendar.