The attack happened in the city of Manchester on Yom Kippur. The attacker drove a vehicle into a group of people outside a synagogue and then got out and killed a security guard with a knife. Two people were killed and three others were injured. The attacker was trying to get inside to kill more people when he was killed by police.
The savage attack unfolded outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester just after 9:30 a.m. as scores of people were worshipping inside, police said.
Cops descended on the scene after a witness reported seeing a car crashing into members of the public before a man was stabbed and left lying in a pool of blood outside the synagogue.
“The second he got out of the car, he started stabbing anyone near him. He went for the security guard and tried to break into the synagogue,” one eyewitness told the Sun.
“The guy had a knife, and he was just stabbing the window trying to get in,” another onlooker said.
As many people are saying today, this is what globalize the intifada looks like.
Manchester, England - this monster just murdered two Jews walking into synagogue on Yom Kippur and put two more in the hospital.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 2, 2025
This is what globalize the intifada looks like. pic.twitter.com/Xz0o3epaEl
There's video from the scene which is pretty gruesome. As this starts the attacker is on the ground but still moving. Bystanders think he has a bomb around his waist and police are shouting at bystanders to get back. The camera pans down to show a man lying in the street in a pool of blood. The attacker tries to get up at which point police shoot him again.
BREAKING: Manchester police have eliminated the Islamist who rammed his car into a synagogue and then began stabbing Jewish congregants. pic.twitter.com/g5jR4vulGH
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 2, 2025
Afterwards the bomb squad came in.
The photo shows a bomb disposal expert and a robot near the body of the Manchester synagogue terrorist after a police officer shot him. pic.twitter.com/OZeMguNOm8
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 2, 2025
Authorities are treating this as terrorism, which it obviously is. Two other people have been arrested, but it's not clear who they are yet.
Laurence Taylor, the head of counterterrorism policing in the U.K., said that the police believe they know the identity of the assailant but had not been able to formally confirm it.
“U.K. policing is mobilizing, and it’s mobilizing fast,” Mr. Taylor said at a news conference. “Police forces are stepping up patrols across the country at synagogues and Jewish sites and more widely to provide reassurance to all those communities who have been affected.”
Mr. Taylor said that the attacker had been shot and killed by the police and that because of “suspicious items on his person,” a bomb squad had been called to the scene. He also said that they had arrested two people in connection with the assault.
A member of this synagogue says there were two paid security guards and two volunteers at the gate. He adds that Jews in the UK have been fearing this day would come for the past two years as they see the streets filled with marches directed at Israel almost every week.
Raphi Bloom, who attends Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, tells Sky News the Jewish community have been 'fearing' an attack for 'two years'.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 2, 2025
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer put out a tweet about the attack.
I’m appalled by the attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) October 2, 2025
The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific.
My thoughts are with the loved ones of all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency…
This was followed by a video in which he vows to "do everything" to keep the Jewish community safe.
This morning's attack is absolutely shocking.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) October 2, 2025
I’m on my way back to London to chair an emergency meeting, and additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country.
We will do everything we can to keep our Jewish community safe. pic.twitter.com/bNUfGbWwfq
Some aren't impressed by those promises though and want to know why Starmer hasn't done more before now.
Julia blasts Keir Starmer for "not doing enough" to protect Jews in the UK, amid an attack at a Synagogue in Manchester.
— Talk (@TalkTV) October 2, 2025
"This is on you Prime Minister! Don't you bloody dare say you want to keep them safe - when you're part of the reason they're not. Shame on you!"@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/3YG4aNnl4O
Here's the video she's referring to of a rally last night in London. You can hear them chanting something about a revolution.
Pro-Pals took over the streets of central London last night. Set off fireworks in the busiest parts. Chanted for Israel’s destruction. And I don’t see a single police officer. So do racist thugs run our capital now? It’s like a nightmare dystopia. @metpoliceuk pic.twitter.com/AA6VqwNQ4K
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) October 2, 2025
Meanwhile, it's fair to say not all of the media has been covering itself in glory as this attack unfolded. This reporter referred to the Synagogue where this attack happened as a Mosque (twice). (Thanks to David for sending me this.) At least the graphics on the screen are correct.
@SkyNews please can you make sure your reporter correctly refers to our place of worship as a ‘synagogue’.
— Rich Jacobs 💙🤍 (@richardjacobs1) October 2, 2025
This reporter has called it a ‘mosque’ twice in 15 secs. pic.twitter.com/9iGM7wEjL4
Early on the BBC was also speculating that maybe the attacker was right-wing.
BBC is speculating whether the Manchester synagogue attacker could be a "far-right neo-Nazi."
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 2, 2025
About now is when I'd usually say that "you don't hate the BBC enough," but Yom Kippur is about forgiveness.
So talk to me in a few hours when I can start hating them again. pic.twitter.com/7S4y3ZUd8O
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, who spent this week denouncing the Gaza peace plan and celebrating the flotilla, said he is horrified by this antisemitic attack.
I am horrified by the news of multiple stabbings at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 2, 2025
My thoughts are with the loved ones of the victims of this heinous antisemitic attack.
We must defend a society where people of all faiths can practice their religion in safety and peace.
The Daily Mail is reporting the two people arrested lived in a home just 1,500 feet away from the synagogue.
Two men have since been arrested in nearby White House Avenue, about 1,500ft from where the carnage took place, the Metropolitan Police's head of counter terrorism policing Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said...
Elite officers armed with assault rifles and Glock pistols are now standing guard outside a property in the 'quiet' White House Avenue, which was raided earlier today...
A man who lives in the street claimed he saw two men in handcuffs being led away by police.
The identity of the killer still hasn't been released and police haven't identified the two men arrested at the house or even said why they were arrested. I'll update below if the ID is released.
Update: The shooter has been ID'd. He's literally named Jihad.
The police have identified the man who carried out the attack near the synagogue as Jihad al-Shamie, 35. In a new statement, Counter Terrorism Policing described him as a British citizen of Syrian descent.
The police said that three suspects were in custody, and had been arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. The offense covers the plotting of terrorist attacks in Britain.
He came to the UK from Syria as a young child and was granted citizenship.
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