PinnedUpdated Oct. 2, 2025, 1:44 p.m. ETA man attacked a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday, using a car and a knife to kill two people and injure four others on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.The police said that officers shot and killed the man minutes after he began his assault, which the country’s counterterrorism police formally labeled an act of terrorism. A vest worn by the attacker, which the police earlier said had “the appearance of an explosive device,” was found not to be viable, investigators said.Two people have been arrested in connection with the attack, the police said, but they did not release their identities or indicate how they might have been connected to the suspected assailant. Investigators said the police believed they knew the identity of the attacker but were working to confirm it.A horrific scene, captured and quickly disseminated on social media, began when the attacker rammed a car into people outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in the heart of the large Orthodox Jewish community north of Manchester.“The driver of the car was seen then to attack people with a knife. He was wearing about his body a vest which had the appearance of an explosive device,” said Stephen Watson, the chief constable of the Manchester police department.The attacker was prevented by security guards and others from entering the synagogue, where morning Yom Kippur prayer services had begun about a half-hour earlier. A large number of people were worshiping at the time, they said, and were initially told to remain inside. They were later evacuated.The attack rattled the Jewish community in Manchester and prompted increased police protection at Jewish cultural and religious sites around Britain.Here’s what else to know:Terrorism label: The British police formally labeled the attack on the synagogue an act of terrorism but did not detail the reasons for the declaration. That designation requires a senior officer to decide whether the available evidence meets Britain’s legal definition of terrorism, which covers violence “for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.”Security fears: The attack left Manchester, and Britain, on edge. Security was increased at Jewish hubs and cultural sites across the country. And in London, a suspicious package forced the evacuation of one of the city’s largest train stations for about 30 minutes. Transit officials later reopened the station.Reactions: Reaction to the attack came from across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attacker “a vile individual who wanted to attack Jews because they are Jews.” Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, said she was “horrified by the news.” Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party, the main opposition in Parliament, called it a “vile and disgusting attack.”Jewish community: Manchester, one of England’s biggest metropolitan areas, is home to the largest Jewish community in the country outside London, about 30,000 people. But the city has an even larger population that identifies as Muslim — the result of waves of immigration over the centuries from across the globe.Nader Ibrahim contributed reporting.Oct. 2, 2025, 2:18 p.m. ETPrime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain denounced what he called the “vile individual” who “committed a terrorist attack.”Credit...Pool photo by James ManningInternational condemnation flowed in after a man rammed a car into people outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, and then stabbed others with a knife on Thursday. The attack killed two people and seriously injured four others.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called the attack “barbaric” in a statement, and said that his nation “grieves with the Jewish community in the U.K.” Yair Lapid, the leader of the Israeli opposition, wrote on X: “Faced with a wave of antisemitic incitement, governments across the world must act forcefully to tackle this scourge and protect their communities.”The United Nations rights chief, Volker Turk, said on X: “Crimes targeting religious communities are utterly deplorable. I am horrified by today’s reports of an attack at a synagogue in Manchester, UK on Yom Kippur. Freedom of religion or belief is central to our humanity and must be defended.”And the U.S. ambassador to Britain, Warren Stephens, called the attack “sickening” and said it served as a “stark reminder of the rise of antisemitism and religious intolerance in our societies.”The Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Saar, at United Nations headquarters in New York in August. On Thursday, he called for “effective action” against “rampant antisemitic and anti-Israeli incitement in Britain.”Credit...Eduardo Munoz/ReutersIsrael’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said in a statement on social media, “I am appalled by the murderous attack near the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on the morning of the holiest day for the Jewish people: Yom Kippur.”Mr. Saar criticized the British authorities, saying that in the past had “failed to take the necessary action to curb this toxic wave of antisemitism.” He added, “We expect and demand a change of course, effective action, and enforcement against the rampant antisemitic and anti-Israeli incitement in Britain.”Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, flew home from a conference in Copenhagen to lead a government committee that handles matters of national emergency. He said “additional police assets” were being sent to protect synagogues across the country.Later, speaking from 10 Downing Street, he denounced the “vile individual” who “committed a terrorist attack that attacked Jews because they are Jews, and attacked Britain because of our values.”“To every Jewish person in this country,” he said, “I also want to say this: I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you.”“Britain will come together to wrap our arms around your community,” he added, “and show you that Britain is a place where you and your family are safe, secure and belong.”The French president, Emmanuel Macron, joined with other leaders in expressing solidarity with the victims, writing in a post on X that “France stands alongside the families struck by an antisemitic terrorist attack.”In the Manchester neighborhood where the attack took place, members of the Jewish community said they were scared and shocked.“It’s this new feeling among the community that this place is no longer safe,” said Chen Bass, 27, an Orthodox Jew and mother of two.Osher Luftag, 18, who lives in the area where the attack took place, said, “It’s a crazy moment.” He said that the father of a friend had braced the doors of the synagogue from inside to prevent the attacker from entering.Mr. Luftag called the moment “the beginning of a new era” and said Jews were not safe in England. “It’s looking a bit bleak for us,” he said.Mark Landler contributed reporting from London, and Aurelien Breeden from Paris.Oct. 2, 2025, 1:42 p.m. ETHatred “is rising once again” and must be defeated, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said after holding a meeting of a committee that deals with national emergencies. The assailant in Manchester attacked “Jews because they were Jews,” Starmer added, noting that many Jewish families had come to Britain “as a place of refuge fleeing the greatest evil ever inflicted on a people.”Speaking from Downing Street, he said, “To every Jewish person in this country, I also want to say this: I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you.”Seeking to offer reassurance, he added, “Britain will come together to wrap our arms around your community and show you that Britain is a place where you and your family are safe, secure and belong.”VideoCreditCredit...ReutersOct. 2, 2025, 1:23 p.m. ETOlder people wrapped in blankets sat on chairs by the cordoned-off area near the synagogue that was attacked. Some said they had been evacuated from homes in the immediate vicinity.Credit...Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOct. 2, 2025, 12:50 p.m. ETA device worn by the attacker, which the police earlier said had “the appearance of an explosive device,” has been found not to be viable, according to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police. The statement also said the “Operation Plato” emergency service protocols for terror attacks were being stood down, an indication that the authorities believe any ongoing threat is over.Credit...Hannah Mckay/ReutersOct. 2, 2025, 12:44 p.m. ETLike other metropolitan centers in Britain, Manchester has absorbed waves of immigration over the centuries.Credit...Anthony Devlin/GettyManchester, one of England’s biggest metropolitan areas, is home to the largest Jewish community in the country outside London, numbering around 30,000 people.They live in the city alongside an even larger population that identifies as Muslim, which makes up one-fifth of the city’s 550,000 citizens.The result, said Graham Stringer, a lawmaker in northern Manchester whose district includes the synagogue, is a city with “a very large Jewish community next to a very large Muslim community.”By and large, relationships between different ethnic and religious groups in the city are excellent, Mr. Stringer said in an interview with BBC Radio Manchester. However, he added that “there are always extreme people who want to damage those relationships and want to, in this case, damage Jews and the Jewish community.”Like other metropolitan centers in Britain, Manchester has absorbed waves of immigration over the centuries from across the globe. Jews began arriving in the city in the 18th century, and the Jewish population rapidly grew beginning in the late 19th century, when those fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe settled in the city, then booming thanks to trade and industrialization.That pattern continued in the 20th century as antisemitism took root in parts of Continental Europe and Nazism gripped Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.In the second half of the century, after the decolonization of the British Empire and the creation of the Commonwealth — an association of many states almost all of which were previously under British rule — migrants from around the world entered the Britain legally. That remained true even after restrictions were introduced in 1971 on the right of Commonwealth citizens to settle in the country.When Uganda, a former British protectorate, expelled Asian residents in 1972, Britain decided it had a responsibility to welcome them. People migrated to Manchester legally from dozens of other countries as well, including Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Kosovo and Albania. And the diversity of the city’s population has drawn people from many more countries to make their homes there.In 2017, a suicide bombing attack on an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena cast a spotlight on the city’s Libyan community, because the parents of the perpetrator, Salman Abedi, had emigrated from Libya. As a teenager in 2011, Mr. Abedi had spent time in Libya as the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi tottered, joining his father, who was part of a group of combatants in the civil war known as “the Manchester fighters.” The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on the concert.In a document outlining a strategy to improve relations between disparate communities, designed to cover the years 2023-26, the Manchester City Council noted that social cohesion “can be profoundly influenced by local, national and international events and politics.”It added that the presence of bad actors seeking to sow division was “nothing new” but said that “an increase in segregated and disconnected communities together with the impact of social media can mean that misinformation and rumors can rapidly inflame community tensions.”Oct. 2, 2025, 12:26 p.m. ETSome members of the Jewish community in the immediate surroundings of the synagogue did not know what had happened, because they do not use phones or other devices on holy days.Oct. 2, 2025, 12:25 p.m. ETAround the neighborhood where the terrorist attack happened, members of the Jewish community said they were scared and shocked. “It’s this new feeling among the community that this place is no longer safe,” Chen Bass, 27, an Orthodox Jew and mother of two who lives in the area, adding,“We think we will see more and more of this.”Oct. 2, 2025, 11:29 a.m. ETOfficers speaking with a resident near the scene of the attack in Manchester, England on Thursday.Credit...Ian Hodgson/Associated PressThe deadly vehicle and knife attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, was declared an act of a terrorism on Thursday by the British police.Laurence Taylor, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing in the United Kingdom, said that officers believed they knew the perpetrator’s identity but could not yet confirm it.Speaking outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Taylor said, “Based on what we know, Counter Terrorism Policing has declared this as a terrorist incident.”Two victims were killed and three others wounded during the attack. The injured remained hospitalized in serious condition, Mr. Taylor said.The attacker was shot dead by police officers at the scene, officials said. Two arrests have been made in connection with the investigation, which was being led by specialized counterterrorism teams, according to Mr. Taylor.Mr. Taylor did not detail the reasons for the terrorism declaration, which requires a senior officer to decide whether the available evidence meets Britain’s legal definition of terrorism. That definition covers violence “for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.”Mr. Taylor said: “We’re deploying all of our capabilities in response to what has happened. We will ensure every piece of intelligence and line of inquiry is interrogated.”Laurence Taylor, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing in the United Kingdom, in London on Thursday. Mr. Taylor said that officers believed they knew the perpetrator’s identity but had not yet confirmed it.Credit...Jack Taylor/ReutersThe police said that the attacker rammed his vehicle into people outside the synagogue before exiting the vehicle and stabbing victims.The Greater Manchester Police said in a statement that its armed officers arrived at the site within minutes of a call to 999 and shot the attacker, who was “prevented from entering the synagogue.”The perpetrator was wearing “suspicious items,” which were examined by a bomb disposal unit, the police said.Video footage taken by a witness and verified by The New York Times showed the attacker wearing an object around his waist. Chief Constable Stephen Watson of the Greater Manchester Police later described it as “a vest which had the appearance of an explosive device.”The suspect’s tactics appeared to mirror several Islamist terrorist attacks in Britain in which perpetrators used vehicles and knives, and wore items created to look like explosive belts or vests.Since the start of 2017, 19 other violent attacks in Britain were declared terrorism by the police or judges. Of those, 11 were classified as having an Islamist motive, five as right wing and one as left wing. In two of the attacks, the motive was unclear.None of those attacks took place at synagogues in Britain, but over the past decade, Jewish people and places of worship have featured in several terrorist plots thwarted by security services. Some of those attacks were planned by neo-Nazis, and others by supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group, officials said.Oct. 2, 2025, 11:28 a.m. ETA police officer guarding a roadblock the site of an attack on a synagogue in Manchester.Credit...Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe British government increased security at hubs of Jewish life nationwide on Thursday, after an attacker killed two people outside a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the Metropolitan Police would be “stepping up high visibility policing in and around synagogues.” Prime Minister Keir Starmer added that “additional police assets” were being sent to synagogues across the country.In London, where the busy Euston train station was briefly evacuated after a security alert, the Metropolitan Police issued a statement acknowledging “significantly increased fear and concern in Jewish communities across the U.K.”“While there is nothing to suggest an increased threat to London, we have deployed additional resources to the areas around synagogues, other Jewish community venues and in those boroughs with significant Jewish populations,” the statement said.Speaking as he prepared to leave Copenhagen, where he met other European leaders, Mr. Starmer confirmed that he planned to oversee a meeting later on Thursday of a government committee that handles national emergencies. “We will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe,” he added.Emily Spurrell, the chair of Britain’s Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said the increased policing was an effort to “reassure Jewish communities.”The Community Security Trust, a British charity that tracks antisemitism and coordinates security measures at Jewish institutions with the government and police, urged people not to gather outside synagogues or other communal sites and to keep their doors “closed at all times.”Oct. 2, 2025, 11:24 a.m. ETKemi Badenoch, the leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party, expressed her shock at the Manchester attack, writing that people were “murdered simply for being Jews.”In a social media post, Badenoch noted that the attack came on Yom Kippur, a day of atonement when Jews “ask themselves — where have we gone wrong in the past, and what do we need to do to be better in the future. These are questions we urgently need to ask ourselves as a nation.”Credit...Adrian Dennis/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOct. 2, 2025, 11:09 a.m. ETThe attacker drove a car directly at people outside the synagogue, said Stephen Watson, the chief constable of the Manchester police, and was then seen wielding a knife against people. Watson said the attacker was wearing a vest that appeared to contain an explosive device.Oct. 2, 2025, 11:03 a.m. ETA group of people near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday.Credit...Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesThe deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday comes at a time of rising antisemitism around the world and in Britain.The Community Security Trust, a charity that tracks antisemitic acts in Britain, reported 1,521 such cases between January and June of this year. Those included physical assaults, property damage, graffiti, online abuse and social media posts, and three cases identified as “extreme violence.” The trust said that was the second-highest rate of anti-Jewish incidents it had ever recorded in the country.The highest ever number — 2,019 cases — was recorded in the first six months of 2024. Those followed the October 2023 attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas militants, in which about 1,200 people were killed, and Israeli’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands.The humanitarian crisis in the enclave and the number of people killed in Israel’s bombardment and ground operations against Hamas have drawn regular protests across Europe.The Runnymede Trust, a British think tank that focuses on social justice issues, said in a recent report that the current approach to protecting Jews from hate crimes in Britain was not working, and might even have worsened the problem by creating a perception among other groups that they were not as zealously protected.“The significant funding given by governments to protect Jewish people specifically makes Jewish communities feel safer in the short term but has given rise to perceptions that there is a hierarchy of racisms in the U.K.,” wrote David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, which produced the report with the Runnymede Trust.“These divisions have been made worse by the conflation of anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel with antisemitism when this is not justified,” Mr. Feldman wrote in an introduction to the report. “At the same time, the left has too often failed to recognize antisemitism, let alone address it.”Oct. 2, 2025, 11:02 a.m. ETOfficers with the Greater Manchester Police fatally shot the attacker within seven minutes of the initial call to the police, Chief Constable Watson said.Oct. 2, 2025, 11:00 a.m. ETCredit...Paul Currie/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOct. 2, 2025, 10:23 a.m. ETThe attack has been formally declared an act of terrorism, said Laurence Taylor, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing in the United Kingdom.Delivering a statement outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, Taylor said the police believe they know the attacker’s identity but had not been able to confirm it. Two arrests have been made.Oct. 2, 2025, 10:13 a.m. ETPrime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived back in Downing Street after flying back from Copenhagen, where he had been attending a conference of European leaders. He will lead a meeting this afternoon of a government committee that handles national emergencies.Oct. 2, 2025, 9:59 a.m. ETPolice and emergency services in Manchester, England, on Thursday activated a set of protocols referring to “marauding terrorist attacks.”Credit...Peter Byrne/Press Association, via Associated PressThe authorities in Britain have not yet confirmed whether a vehicle ramming and stabbing at a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday is being treated as a potential act of terrorism.In its first statement on the assault, which occurred around 9:30 a.m. local time, Greater Manchester Police said it had “declared Plato” shortly after being called to the scene. That was a reference to Operation Plato, a set of protocols for armed police officers and emergency services when responding to major episodes, including terrorist attacks.At least two people were killed in the attack, and at least three others were injured, the police said. The assailant died after being shot by armed officers, the police said.It is common for the counterterrorism police to be involved in the initial response to mass violence in Britain, even when the target of an attack or motive is unclear.But the decision to formally declare whether a terrorist attack has taken place lies with a high-ranking police officer: Britain’s senior national coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing.That person looks at the information immediately available after an attack to decide whether it meets Britain’s legal definition of terrorism, which refers to violence “for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.”Such decisions can be highly sensitive and can require the analysis of evidence including witness accounts, material on a suspect’s devices and details of the suspect’s personal history. Investigators examine any available clues to try to establish if an attacker had an ideological motive, or whether the attack was driven by other factors.Oct. 2, 2025, 9:38 a.m. ETA multi-faith vigil to commemorate the victims of the suicide bombing attack at Manchester Arena, where the singer Ariana Grande was performing, in Manchester in 2017. A total of 19 violent attacks in Britain have been declared terrorism by the police or judges since the start of 2017.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York TimesManchester, where an assailant attacked a synagogue on Thursday morning, was the location of one of Britain’s deadliest terror attacks. In May 2017, a supporter of Islamic State detonated a powerful suicide bomb among Ariana Grande fans leaving a concert at Manchester Arena, one of the country’s largest indoor venues.Twenty-two people were killed, several of them children, and hundreds were injured. The bomber, Salman Abedi, 22, had planned the attack with his younger brother, Hashem Abedi, who is serving a life sentence in prison.The authorities have not yet announced whether the synagogue attack on Thursday, which left at least two victims dead and others injured, was being treated as a potential act of terrorism.Another high-profile attack in Manchester was on Dec. 31, 2018, when a stabbing took place near the entrance to Manchester Arena, inside Manchester Victoria railway station. The police later declared that a terror attack.In that attack, Mahdi Mohamud, a Dutch citizen, injured a man and woman who were on their way home from New Year’s Eve celebration, then turned the knife on a police officer who tried to subdue him.He was arrested at the scene and none of the injuries he caused were fatal. He shouted, “This is for Allah” and, “Long live the caliphate” during the attack. He was later detained in a high-security psychiatric hospital.A total of 19 violent attacks in Britain have been declared terrorism by the police or judges since the start of 2017. Of those, 11 have been classed as having a jihadist motive, five from the right wing, and one from the left wing. In two of the attacks, the motive was unclear.Oct. 2, 2025, 9:15 a.m. ETThe police confirmed that the attacker died after being shot by armed officers. They added in a statement that a “loud noise” heard at the scene of the attack this afternoon was a result of officers “gaining entry to the suspect’s vehicle as a precaution.”Oct. 2, 2025, 8:48 a.m. ETMartin Hamer, a resident of Manchester, said in a phone interview that he saw the suspected attacker attempting to get into the synagogue through a window moments before the police arrived.Hamer had approached the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, curious after he saw what he initially thought was a traffic accident outside the building.“As we got nearer,” he said, “we realized there was a guy dead on the floor, and there was another guy fighting for his life in front of the car.” Hamer, who recorded video of the scene that his daughter posted on Facebook, said that the police arrived minutes after and opened fire.Oct. 2, 2025, 8:04 a.m. ETVideoTwo Killed in Attack Outside Synagogue in Manchester, EnglandThe police said two people had been killed and others injured in a vehicle ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, in northwestern England. The attack happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.CreditCredit...Peter Byrne/Press Association, via Associated PressAt least two people were killed after a vehicle ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday morning. A suspect was also dead, the authorities said.The attack occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, while congregants were gathered inside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue.Here’s what we know:What happened and where?Greater Manchester Police said they received a call at 9:31 a.m. on Thursday morning reporting that a car had been driven toward members of the public, and that several people had been stabbed.The chief constable, Stephen Watson, said officers with the Greater Manchester Police fatally shot the attacker within seven minutes of the initial call. He said the attacker was wearing a vest that appeared to contain an explosive device. . The police later said that the device was not viable.They said the attacker had been prevented from entering the synagogue because of the quick response by a witness who called the police.Two people, members of the Jewish community, were killed in the attack, the police said. Others were injured, including four who were in serious condition on Thursday afternoon, the police said at an afternoon news conference.The attack occurred outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in northern Manchester, around the time that the congregation was scheduled to be having services on Yom Kippur. The police said a large number of people were inside the synagogue during the attack, but that they had been safely evacuated.What do we know about the suspect?Police have not announced the identity of the suspect who was killed or any possible motive. They said the attacker, who was shot by armed officers, had been killed. Two other people were arrested.Footage taken by a witness and verified by The New York Times earlier on Thursday showed two armed police officers with their rifles aimed at the suspected attacker, who was on the ground outside the synagogue, as an injured person lay nearby. In the video, which was posted to Facebook, one of the officers told people at the synagogue gates to move back, shouting: “He has a bomb, go away.”Moments later, the person on the ground appeared to be trying to get up, and the police fired at least one shot. The man fell back to the ground.Was it a terror attack?The attack was an act of terrorism, said Laurence Taylor, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing in the United Kingdom.Greater Manchester Police said in a statement that they had declared “Plato” shortly after being called to the scene, which is a reference to Operation Plato, a set of protocols for armed police officers and emergency services when responding to major incidents, including “marauding terrorist attacks.”To declare that an attack was terrorism, Britain’s Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing looks at the information immediately available after an attack to decide whether it meets Britain’s legal definition of terrorism, which covers violence “for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.”The process can involve analyzing evidence including witness accounts, suspects’ electronic devices and information about their personal background to determine whether they had ideological motivation or if the attack was driven by other factors.Christine Hauser contributed reporting.Oct. 2, 2025, 7:39 a.m. ETIsrael’s Embassy in the U.K. has condemned the attack and thanked the Greater Manchester Police for its swift response. “That such an act of violence should be perpetrated on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, in a place of prayer and community, is abhorrent and deeply distressing,” the embassy said in a statement.Oct. 2, 2025, 7:29 a.m. ETThe police said that the attacker had been prevented from entering the synagogue thanks to the quick response of a witness who called the police.Oct. 2, 2025, 7:21 a.m. ETKing Charles III said in a statement, “My wife and I have been deeply saddened and shocked to learn of the horrific attack in Manchester, especially on such a significant day for the Jewish community.”Oct. 2, 2025, 7:20 a.m. ETThe police said a large number of people were worshipping at the synagogue at the time of the attack, and were kept inside while the immediate area was made safe but have since been evacuated. A bomb disposal unit was at the scene.Credit...Paul Currie/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOct. 2, 2025, 7:19 a.m. ETThe police said that three injured people were in serious condition.Oct. 2, 2025, 7:18 a.m. ETThe police in Manchester said a third person, a man believed to be the offender, was shot and is also believed to be dead. That has not been confirmed because of suspicious items around the person.Oct. 2, 2025, 7:14 a.m. ETThe Greater Manchester Police said two people died in the attack outside the synogogue.Credit...Paul Currie/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOct. 2, 2025, 7:01 a.m. ETMorning prayers began at 9 a.m., according to the synagogue’s website, just over a half-hour before the attack was reported to police at 9:31 a.m. The prayers, called Shacharis, are typically recited before noon.Oct. 2, 2025, 6:44 a.m. ETFootage taken by a witness and verified by The New York Times showed two armed police officers with their rifles aimed at the suspected attacker, who was on the ground outside the synagogue, as an injured person lay nearby. In the video, which was posted to Facebook, one of the officers told people at the synagogue gates to move back, shouting: “He has a bomb, go away.”The police have not confirmed whether the man was carrying an explosive device.Moments later, the suspected attacker appeared to be trying to get up, and the police fired at least one shot. The man fell back to the ground.