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Police reacted quickly and ‘effectively’ to the incident near a synagogue, Andy Burnham said(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n\u201cI know, like after the Manchester Arena attack, people will come together\u201dPolice reacted quickly and ‘effectively’ to the incident near a synagogue, Andy Burnham said(Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n
The attack outside a north Manchester synagogue has ‘appalled’ the area\u2019s MP, who dubbed it an attempt to ‘damage our very tolerant city’.<\/p>\n
Armed police raced to the Heaton Park<\/a> Congregation Synagogue scene on Middleton<\/a> Road in Crumpsall area at 9.31am, along with paramedics.<\/p>\n The mayor said emergency services were called \u2018by members of the public, saying they had witnessed a car being driven to the public and one had been stabbed\u2019.<\/p>\n Get news, views and analysis of the biggest stories with the daily Mancunian Way newsletter – sign up <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It has since been confirmed by GMP officers that the male suspect was shot at the scene at around 9.38am. Four members of the public have been injured, police added.<\/p>\n Graham Stringer, Labour<\/a> MP for Blackley<\/a> and Middleton South, has called for \u2018Mancunians to come together\u2019 in the wake of the incident.<\/p>\n He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \u201cIt\u2019s a dreadful attack designed to damage the Jewish community and damage inter-faith and inter-community relationships. I know that Mancunians will come together to make sure that villains like this do not damage our very tolerant city.<\/p>\n \u201cI know the synagogue well and I know the people in the synagogue. I have lived within a stone\u2019s throw of that synagogue for most of my adult life and I think it\u2019s appalling<\/p>\n \u201cI know, like after the Manchester Arena<\/a> attack, people will come together.\u201d<\/p>\n