One of the victims who died in Manchester attack likely shot by officers, police say
- Greater Manchester Police admitted that a victim of the synagogue attack died from a gunshot wound caused by police officers responding to the incident, according to Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson.
- The attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, was confirmed to not possess a firearm during the incident, with the only shots fired being from police officers.
- Victims Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were both killed in the attack, with Daulby suffering a fatal gunshot wound while preventing the attacker from entering the synagogue.
- The attack occurred on Yom Kippur, a significant date in Judaism, and has been declared a terrorist incident, with investigations continuing under counter-terrorism policing.
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One of 2 victims in UK synagogue attack apparently shot accidentally by police
MANCHESTER, England — One of the two Jewish men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the English city of Manchester appears to have been accidentally shot by a police officer, according to detectives who said Friday that the attacker may have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
MANCHESTER.- In a dramatic turn, one of the two killed in the attack on a synagogue on Thursday in Manchester City appears to have received a bullet fired by the police while attempting to arrest the aggressor, authorities said on Friday.The police fired and struck Jihad al-Shamie, the 35-year-old British identified as responsible for the attack, seven minutes after he struck a pedestrian car outside the synagogue on Thursday morning and then at…
One of the two fatalities after the attack in front of a synagogue in Manchester, UK, may have been killed by gunshots from a police weapon. Accordingly, the police president of Manchester, Watson, said. The police did not assume that the perpetrator was in possession of a gun. One of the three injured had also been shot by gunshots. Fortunately, this injury was not life-threatening, they said.


2 victims at the Manchester synagogue were shot, 1 of them fatally — but the attacker didn't have a gun
On Thursday, a man rammed his car into a crowd of people and proceeded to go on a stabbing spree outside a synagogue in Manchester, England. While several casualties were originally reported, Greater Manchester Police have released new details that cast a different shadow on the atrocity.Police have since reported that examination of the bodies has revealed that Jihad Al-Shamie, the named perpetrator of the attack, did not cause all of the injur…
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