Police have shot a suspect after an incident outside a synagogue in Crumpsall in which a car was allegedly driven at pedestrians and another person was stabbed
Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man understood to be a security man had been stabbed.
GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am.
Paramedics arrived at the scene at 9.41 and are tending to members of the public, currently four members of the public with injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds.
The incident has occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.
Members of the public are asked to avoid the area while the police continue to deal with the incident.
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has told the BBC “it is believed” that the offender is dead.
The prime minister has broken off from the EPC summit in Copenhagen and will chair an emergency Cobra meeting later this afternoon
Police are treating it as a terror attack
