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We're just piecing together, I suppose,
now a bit more of a picture of what
happened, who the asalent was, and also
important to say, uh, there've been a
couple of arrests, haven't there? Um, we
don't know much about those or or what
the details of those arrests were.
>> No, two arrests made at an address not
far from here, and they were made, I
would say, about 1:00 this afternoon.
Uh, so we knew that they were ongoing.
It wasn't clear whether or not they were
linked to what happened, but it seems
that they were with the chief conipal of
Greater Manchester Police confirming
that there had been two arrests. I think
the photo that's on the website at the
moment from the B the BBC have put up.
They put up that picture that you
mentioned of um taken by via Reuters
shows the body of the attacker being
examined by a bond disposal uh
technician. And you can see bond
disposal robots can be seen in the
picture and knives nearby as well as
items that were thought have been
strapped to his waist. Now, we've seen a
picture already today of the asalent
wearing what appears to be an explosive
device around his waist. What seems to
have happened since the shooting is that
they've used the bomb disposal equipment
to uh cut away that vest or a device and
move it away from him to examine him and
make it safe. We did hear a number of
controlled explosions here early this
afternoon. We understand that was to
actually to do with actually getting
into the vehicle that the asalent was
driving at the time because remember
this was an attack involved a stabbing
and a car being driven at a number of
people. They were obviously having
trouble getting into it safely. So they
used the uh the bomb disposal um
facilities to actually get into that car
safely to get the locks blown off by the
sounds of it. And we've heard three
explosions throughout the afternoon.
We've had to have some clarification on
numbers of people injured as well
because there's been a little bit of
sort of confusion about that and and and
the chief constipal there said that four
people four further people remain in
hospital with serious injuries at the
moment. Uh after
>> we had thought it was three.
>> Yes, we thought it was three earlier um
and then two members of the Jewish
community have died. So that's
confirming that what we suspected was
the case that it was people who were
actually part of the congregation or
going in or coming out of the synagogue
this morning who were targeted in that
attack that were standing roughly in the
gateway there. Because if you go past
the actual place there's there's a sort
of long wall with railings that runs in
front of the uh synagogue here and only
sort of a a fairly narrow gateway that
you could get a vehicle through. It
seems that people were standing either
just inside that gateway or in the
gateway at the time of the attack. Um
and so yeah, you know, it just puts a
bit more um detail on on what we kind of
knew knew already and and and firms up
the actual exact detail of how many
people are injured and sadly how many
people died as well.
>> And he was also the chief principal
there just talking about how you know in
a way fortunate it was that he the
attacker was not able to get inside the
synagogue. But also, I think when you
when you hear about that vest with the
appearance of explosive devices on it,
whether or not that was a viable device
that he had on him, it just underlines
the bravery, doesn't it, of the police
officers attending the scene, the bomb
disposal unit then trying to remove that
vest from him
>> and the security at the synagogue at the
time who were confronted with this man
because the call goes in at 9:31. The
incident's already underway at that
point. So, the police are still a few
moments away by then. And so it's the
security that basically every um Jewish
uh establishment has at the moment that
they have a standard their sort of
security guards on there. They had to
deal with this initially and what
mustard they thought were this car
drives into a crowd. This man obviously
then gets out of the vehicle and he
appears to be wearing a vest and they
still managed to lock down the synagogue
effectively very very quickly to stop
him getting in because that's what we're
hearing from eyewitnesses. We're hearing
about a man who drives into the crowd
and then a man trying to use a knife to
get into the building. Um, and then he's
he's and he is unsuccessful in his
attempts to do so. Thankfully, it
appears due to the actions of the
security and the people in the synagogue
stopping him getting it. And it could
have then been a lot worse if he got in.
>> So, it's a combination in a sense of the
security there. Of course, there's
heightened security already even before
this at places like this synagogue we're
standing just down the road from. But
also the remarkably fast response from
the police and not just the police, the
armed police.
>> Yeah. I mean, you know, great all police
forces have, especially metropolitan
areas, have an armed response vehicle
somewhere on duty. They probably have
more than one on, you probably have
several armed response vehicles around
at any one time. And so they was
obviously one very close to this area. I
mean, we're not far from the center of
Manchester. This is a densely populated
area. This is somewhere where police
would routinely have resources on
patrol. They were here quickly and and
and and thankfully, they weren't too far
away by the looks of it to actually deal
with the incident when it happened. All
right, Danny.
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