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Two people have died after a car and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Greater Manchester on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

Greater Manchester Police said three more people remain in hospital after the vehicle drove into the crowd at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, around three miles north of Manchester city centre.

The suspect, named by police as Jihad Al-Shamie was shot by officers after attack, which is being treated as a terror incident by police.

The 35-year-old was wearing a vest that looked like an “explosive device” - which was later found to be not be “viable” - during the attack which saw several people stabbed.

Two men aged in their 30s and a woman in her 60s have also been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack in connection with the killings.

open image in gallery Emergency personnel work at the scene outside the synagogue in Manchester ( Reuters )

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned the “vile” attack as he said Britain “must defeat” rising antisemitism and deployed additio