Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox- Britain’s counter-terrorism police named a British citizen of Syrian descent as the perpetrator of an attack on a synagogue that killed two people. Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, carried out the attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on the morning of Oct 2, according to statements from Counter Terrorism Policing and Greater Manchester Police. Police said the attacker drove a vehicle at people outside the synagogue and then attacked them with a knife, before being shot dead by officers. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the killings “a terrorist attack that attacked Jews because they are Jews”, speaking in a televised address after cutting short his attendance at a European summit in Copenhagen. He attended a synagogue service in London in the evening of Oct 2 in a show of solidarity with the Jewish community.
