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Greater Manchester police have named the
two men killed in the attack yesterday
at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation
Synagogue in Manchester. They are
53-year-old Adrien Dolby and 66-year-old
Melvin Kravitz, who were killed while
observing Yamapour, the holiest day in
the Jewish calendar. Their families are
being supported by police. Increased
security has been put in place at
synagogues across the country. a warning
that this report from our correspondent
Nick Johnson contains some images you
may find distressing.
Get back if you're not involved. Move
back.
Yamipur, the holiest day in the Jewish
calendar while worshippers at the Heaton
Park Synagogue shelter inside. Outside,
armed police confront a man who' just
driven a car into people before carrying
out an attack with a knife. Two had been
killed, three others injured. The
attacker also appeared to be wearing an
explosive device.
Shoot him.
Within 7 minutes of being called, police
had shot the suspect dead. Bomb disposal
experts then confirmed the device was
not viable.
The attacker was 35-year-old Jihad
Al-Shami, a British citizen of Syrian
descent who arrived in the UK as a small
child and has been a British national
since 2006.
The police confrontation with Al Shami
was witnessed and filmed by Gareth and
his colleague Martin.
There was another guy in front of him in
front of the car. I don't know if the
car has hit him or whatever, but
whatever. He was on the floor fighting
for his life and then literally someone
in the crowd shouted, "He's got
something on him." And as I turned
around, he was literally stabbing at the
synagogue window door trying to get in.
Like he was trying to press it and
that's why he trying to set the bomb up.
Eyewitnesses describe how synagogue
security staff prevented the attacker
from getting inside the building. Behind
the closed doors of the temple,
worshippers attempted to continue their
service. This is Rabbi Daniel Walker
leaving the synagogue. Blood can be seen
at the bottom of his robe.
Police fan out to other addresses across
Manchester, including here in Preswitch,
less than three miles from the
synagogue. This footage was filmed by
Simon Barlas, who says his family were
the previous owners of Al Shami's house
and remained living nearby.
Well, I've seen him going to the shops
across the road. Um, I've seen him in
his back garden using his weights, but
that's about it. I've not really had a
conversation with him knowing that a
terrorist is living under my nose, you
know, within from here to that address,
what is it, 2-minute walk, if that. And
for to have somebody like that living on
my estate is scary. Very scary.
Greater Manchester police say three
people have been arrested, two men in
their 30s and a woman in her 60s on
suspicion of terror offenses.
Jihad Al- Shami is not thought to have
been under any current investigation.
Police are now working to understand the
motive.
There will be lots of questions that
people would like answers to and
quickly,
but please understand that some of this
will take time. What I can say is that
the highly visible response to these
dreadful incidents will be sustained as
we work to understand the full
circumstances of what has happened.
Last night, the prime minister visited a
synagogue in London with his wife who's
Jewish and condemned yesterday's attack.
While this is not a new hate, this is
something Jews have always been, we must
be clear. It is a hatred that is rising
once again and Britain must defeat it
once again. Police forces say there will
now be an increased presence in and
around synagogues across the country.
This is the first deadly attack on a
British synagogue, something Jews in
this country have long feared. This
morning, the two men who were killed
have been named as 53-year-old Adrien
Dolby and Melvin Kravitz, who was 66.
The question already on the lips of
some, how the Jewish community in
Manchester and beyond can heal.
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