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Starmer: Manchester synagogue attack ‘all the more horrific’ for being on Yom Kippur
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A Police officer stands on duty at a cordon near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025 (Paul Currie / AFP)
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is appalled by the attack at a synagogue in Manchester, adding that the fact it had taken place on the holy day of Yom Kippur makes it “all the more horrific.”
British police said four people had been injured after a car was reportedly driven at pedestrians and people were stabbed near a synagogue in Manchester, northwest England, and that officers had shot the suspected offender.
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