The United Kingdom Police responds to the “attack” of stabbing, shoots the suspect near the Manchester synagogue
London – A vehicle was driven to a multitude of people and a man was stabbed near a synagogue in Manchester, a British northern city, police said.
“He has shot a man, who is believed to be the offender,” said the great Manchester police on social networks.
The incident occurred outside the Synagogue of the Heaton Park’s Hebrew congregation in a suburb of the north of the city on Thursday morning, police said.
Emergency staff works in a cordon in Middleton Road after an incident outside a synagogue in North Manchester, Great Britain, on October 2, 2025.
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Police said at least four people had been injured, “with injuries caused by both the vehicle and the wounds of a white weapon.” A public member told the officers that they responded “that he had witnessed a car led to the public members,” along with a stabbed man, police said.
The firearms officers responded to the call, police said.
Police said they had declared an important incident, along with a designation of “Plato”, an abbreviation of the police that means that the incident was being treated as a possible Meroderist terrorist attack.
Emergency services at the scene of an incident of stabbing in the synagogue of the Heaton Park Congregation, in Crumpall, Manchester, England, Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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Thursday is Yom Kippur, which is considered the most sacred day of the year in Judaism.
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, told X that he was “horrified by the attack in a synagogue in Crumpall.”
“The fact that this took place in Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, makes it even more horrible,” added the prime minister.
A police officer is on a cordon near the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Crumpall, North Manchester, on October 2, 2025, after reports of a stabbing.
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“My thoughts are with the loved ones of all those affected, and my thanks to emergency services and all the first to respond,” Starmer wrote.
Starmer was in Copenhagen, Denmark, for a summit with European leaders when the incident occurred.
Speaking to journalists, the prime minister said he would return to the United Kingdom and that he would preside over a emergency “cobra” meeting, a meeting of senior officials to discuss and respond to national emergencies.
The synagogue website where the incident occurred listed the events related to Yom Kippur for Wednesday and Thursday night.
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