Hours later, Britain’s counter-terrorism police arrested two people and were questioning them in connection with the incident. Gulbar added that he had been in touch with law enforcement in Texas and that his family hoped to get Akram’s body back to Britain for a funeral. President Biden says the hostage situation in a synagogue in Texas was ‘an act of terror’. British authorities — in the UK & US — are providing our full support to Texas and US law enforcement agencies. At one point, the standoff involved some 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers massed around Colleyville.

Source: Pakistan Today January 17, 2022 06:50 UTC