The Synagogue attack in Manchester, a soldier with 2 dead and 4 seriously injured, is treated as an act of terrorism. Two people were arrested

The British police announced that the attack committed on Thursday on Manchester synagogue, a resulting two dead, is considered a “terrorist incident” and two arrests have already been made.

Commissioner Laurence Taylor, the national head of the British Anti -Terrorist Police, said the attacker was shot dead by the police, reports The Guardian, quoted by News.ro.

The antitrorist police specify that it identified, but has not made his name yet.

“Based on the information we have, the anti-terrorist police declared this incident as a terrorist incident,” the official said in a press conference in front of the Scotland Yard headquarters in London.

Two arrests were made, Taylor announced.

In addition, the Greater Manchester police confirmed that a device that the suspect wore and were fears that it would be a bomb was not viable.

The police had previously stated that the suspect wore a vest that had something to be attached to an explosive device. Because there were fears that the attacker had a bomb, the death of the suspect was officially declared late.

Later it was confirmed that the “device” – which seemed to be made up of bottles or small canisters – was not a bomb. Such devices had been observed in previous terrorist incidents in the UK, including in the London Bridge in 2017.

The suspect was shot dead for seven minutes after the police were called on the spot, and for checking the device the attacker had on him a specialized robot was sent.

A police spokesman also confirmed that Plato – the code name for a terrorist attack – was suspended, but the major incident status remains.

What happened to the synagogue

Two people died and four were seriously injured on Thursday morning in front of a Manchester synagogue, which was very crowded on the occasion of the Yom Kippur holiday. A man entered the car in front of the synagogue in Heaton Park in Crumpsall, in the north of the metropolis, then left the vehicle and attacked them with a knife.

The police were contacted around 9:30 local (11:30 Romanian time) after a witness saw “a car that entered people and a man who was stabbed.” Others saw “a security agent” while he was “hit with a knife”.

The two people who died in the attack are members of the Jewish community, the police said. Four people are hospitalized with serious wounds.

The head of the London Police, Laurence Taylor's anti -terrorist unit revealed that two people were arrested in the investigation, without giving more details. He added that he cannot reveal the identity of the deceased suspect for “security reasons”.

The numerous people present in the synagogue at the time of the tragedy were first isolated in the building, before being evacuated, according to the police.

On Thursday afternoon, dozens of inhabitants of the city gathered on Sinagogi Street, where an important security device was held and where the members of the Jewish community met to pray, AFP reports.

King Charles declares himself deeply shocked

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who, like the High UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, was declared “terrified” by this attack, has shortened his presence at the European Political Community's summit to return to the United Kingdom and prescribe an emergency government meeting.

He announced the development of “additional police resources” to ensure the security of synagogues throughout the UK.

“Nothing indicates an increased threat” in London, the Capital Police said in a statement.

King Charles III was also declared “deeply shocked and sad.”

The Embassy of Israel in the United Kingdom condemned this “odious and deeply disturbing” attack, while the European Union appealed to “continuing the fight against anti -Semitism in all forms.”

The attack took place on the day of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, the most holy in Judaism. During this holiday, believers usually go to the synagogue several times to pray.

The Jewish population of Greater Manchester was estimated at about 28,000 people in 2021, according to the British Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

The Jewish organization Community Security Trust (CST) has qualified this incident as “a terrifying attack”.

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on the same social network an “anti -Semitic terrorist attack”. His interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, asked the prefects of France to strengthen the guard in the “places frequented by the Jewish community.”

Two years since Hamas attack in Israel

This attack takes place just a few days before the two -year commemoration of the bloody attack committed by Hamas in the south of Israel, on October 7, 2023, which made 1,219 dead, most civilians, according to an AFP balance based on official data.

As reprisals, the Israeli army triggered a large offensive in the Gaza Strip, which caused 66,055 dead, most civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN.

The United Kingdom has registered an increase in the number of anti -Semitic incidents in recent years, with a peak from October 7, 2023.

CST registered 1,521 incidents in the first six months of 2025, a decrease in the record of 2,019 in the first half of 2024. However, this year's figure is the second largest registered, the charitable organization, which monitors anti -Semitism in the UK in 1984, said.