The British police said they accidentally shot a victim who died in the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, as well as one of the survivors, while they tried to stop an attacker who seemed to wear an explosive belt.
In the attack of Thursday, two men, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed after a British man of Syrian descent drove a car in pedestrians and then started stabbing people outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagoge during Yom Kippur.
The attacker, shot by officers on the spot, did not wear a firearm, said Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Steve Watson, although one of those who killed a shot wound.
“It therefore follows that this injury may have been incurred as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgent required action that my officers took to end this cruel attack,” Watson said in a statement.
Watson said that another worshiper is supposed to have suffered a non-lifferring shot wound, and that it is thought that both victims were close to each other behind the synagogue door, while adorners tried to prevent the attacker from gaining access.
The complaints from the police watchdog said it carried out an investigation into what happened.
Two Jewish people were killed in the attack and three remain in a serious state.
Attacker identified
The police have identified the attacker as Jihad al-Shamie, 35, and said they could not find data to show that he had been referred to the government’s anti-radicalization program.
The head of Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said on Friday in an update that the authorities believe that al-Shamia may have been influenced by extreme Islamic ideology, although determining the full circumstances of the attack would probably take time.
Al-Shamia was not known that the fight against terrorism will come across, but has earlier criminal history, including a recent arrest for rape, after which he was saved, Taylor said.
“We have now arrested three further people, one man and two women, between 18 and mid -40s. This brings the number of people arrested in detesting commission, preparation and appointment of terrorism to six,” Taylor added.
The Jewish community of the UK is in shock after the deadly synagogue attack on Yom Kippur. Source: Getty / Christopher Furlong
‘Gruesome action’
In a statement on Facebook, Shamie’s family said that they were in “in -depth shock” and wanted to distance themselves from what they called his “horrible act”.
The British government promised her efforts to tackle anti -Semitism while the Jewish community of the attack was faltering.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the location of the attack and spoke with police and ambulance employees, while praising “the degree of professionalism and speed” they showed in their response.
When Vice Prime Minister David Lammy spoke on a wake outside the Synagogue on Friday, he was by people who said that “Jews no longer want to live here” and encouraged him to stop the Pro-Palestinian marches who have regularly taken place in British cities since the start of the Gaza war.
Like other European countries and the United States, the UK has registered a strong increase in anti -Semitic incidents in the almost two years since the Gaza conflict began.
Last year it was secondly registered for such incidents, only surpassed by 2023, according to the Community Security Trust, which provides security to Jewish organizations in Great Britain. It registered more than 3,500 incidents in 2024.
Many Jewish leaders noted that they were the only belief in Britain that needed routine safety at its institutions.
Islamophobic incidents in Great Britain have also increased since the start of the Gaza war.
Last month, Starmer announced that Great -Britain recognized a Palestinian state in the hope of breathing new life into Peace for Palestinians and Israeli’s, a decision described by Israel as a “enormous reward for terrorism”.
Manchester, in northwestern England, is a very diverse city council of the largest Jewish community in the country outside of London.
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