Hospitals in Manchester have been put on lockdown after a car was driven at a crowd and a man was stabbed by a synagogue before the suspect was shot dead by police.
Six hospitals – Salford Royal, Fairfield General, Rochdale Infirmary and the Royal Oldham, North Manchester and Tameside General Hospitals – have all been locked down following the incident in Crumpsall.
Officers rushed to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue at 9.31am today on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Four people have been injured – with two believed to be dead – after a car was driven at a crowd and a man was stabbed outside a synagogue before the suspect was shot.
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 told the Mail it was ‘too early’ to determine the attacker’s motivation.
