UK on Texas attack: ‘A terrible and antisemitic act of terrorism’

Britain promises “full support” to US investigators after it emerges that the man behind a hostage-taking at a Texas synagogue was a British citizen.

“This was a terrible and antisemitic act of terrorism,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman tells journalists after the attack during which British captor Malik Faisal Akram was killed.

Congregation Beth Israel hostage taker, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram (courtesy)

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