Car and knife attack at UK synagogue on Yom Kippur kills 2 and injures 3

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2. Suspect identified

UK counter-terrorism police named the suspect as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, although they said “formal identification is yet to take place.”

Police said that Al-Shamie had not been referred to the UK Home Office’s Prevent program, according to the information currently available. The program is a central plank of Britain’s strategy to combat terrorism.

Alongside Al-Shamie, police said that three other suspects – two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s – are in custody and have been arrested “on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/uk/uk-synagogue-attack-manchester-intl