{"id":468321,"date":"2025-10-02T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/468321\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:36:14","slug":"car-and-knife-attack-injures-4-at-u-k-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/468321\/","title":{"rendered":"Car and knife attack injures 4 at U.K. synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Police said Thursday that four people have been injured after a car was driven at members of the public and a man was stabbed outside a synagogue the English city of Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that more police officers will be deployed at synagogues across the United Kingdom<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>This comes after an attack near Manchester on Thursday left four people injured<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Starmer was returning early from a European leaders&#8217; summit in Copenhagen to chair a government emergency meeting<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Police said a car was driven at the public, and a man was stabbed outside a synagogue in north Manchester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The incident, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is said to be over after a man, believed to be the offender, was shot by police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is believed that the offender is deceased, although it&#8217;s not confirmed,&#8221; said the mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Radio Manchester, he said that as a result, a &#8220;degree of reassurance can be given that it&#8217;s not a developing, an ongoing, incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a series of posts on X, Greater Manchester Police said they were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall shortly after 9:30 a.m. by a member of the public, who said he had witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public and that one man had been stabbed.<\/p>\n<p>It said that minutes later shots were fired by firearms officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One man has been shot, believed to be the offender,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>It said four people were being treated for injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it had &#8220;declared Plato,&#8221; the national code-word used by police and emergency services when responding to a &#8220;marauding terror attack.&#8221; That does not mean it has been declared a terrorist incident.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was appalled by the attack and additional police officers would be deployed at synagogues across the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>He was flying home early from a summit of European leaders in Copenhagen, Denmark, to chair a meeting of the government&#8217;s emergency committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific,&#8221; Starmer said on the X platform.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust, a charity that monitors antisemitism in the U.K., said Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very solemn day and synagogues across the country will be full throughout the day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is &#8220;always a significant security operation in place&#8221; between police and the trust across the Jewish community on all major Jewish festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester was the site of Britain&#8217;s deadliest attack in recent years, the 2017 suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Police said Thursday that four people have been injured after a car was driven at members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[117405,117407,156148,51681,14857,19430,748,393,4884,522,12,117408,1144,22339,712,14,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-468321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","10":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","11":"tag-app-international","12":"tag-app-public-safety","13":"tag-app-top-stories","14":"tag-associated-press","15":"tag-britain","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-international","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nnt","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-public-safety","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115304371606431142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}