Counter-terrorism police swoop on street of Manchester attacker | UK | News
Anti-terrorist police and armed officers, suspicious Manchester Synagogue attacker Jihad al-Shamie’nin allegedly allegedly lived in a settlement street. Residents said the police switched to Langley Crescent in Prestwich, two miles away from the terrorist attack at 16:00 in the afternoon.
Images from the street, armed police and counter -terrorist firearms, including a large police officer shows the presence.
A resident said: “One police went upstairs and a vehicle with armed police with body armor and helmets. Two police officers closed the road on Langley Boulevard.
“All the neighbors were out in their gardens. A very nice area, a really quiet area and the neighbors were worried. Not something you expect to see.
He continued: “It took 20 minutes, there were two plain -covered police officers.”
Another resident who lives close to the place where the police were seen, “I have been living here for more than two years and I have never seen anything like this. This is not what you expect.
“We don’t know what happened, but after shocking events in the synagogue, you can’t help you think it may be connected, of course it is too much coincidence.”
A local, Simon Barlas, 56, Manchester Evening News He recently saw Al-Shamie’s “pressure on the garden”.
Police cars, Yaya Langley Crescent’in fled Langley Hall Road, he said. He said six -free police cars and a police van had emerged.
On Thursday morning, two people were killed in the attack outside the Hebrew Community Synagogue in Crumpsall.
The Great Manchester police called Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian origin, as the person who believes he was responsible for the car and knife attack on the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar.
The attack is similar to the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack in 2017, when Khalid Masood puts a car into pedestrians before killing PC Keith Palmer at Westminster gates.
The police said that he was directed to public members and that a man was stabbed.
The force confirmed the death of the suspect at 9.38 a few hours after he was fired by the armed police.
A woman who describes herself as a religious Jew who lives next to the synagogue, said as soon as the suspicious car landed, she started to stab someone next to it ”.
Chava Lewin said: um I was out and I heard a striking sound and I thought it could be a fireworks.
“My husband went out and went in and said, ‘There was a terrorist attack’.
Im I talked to someone who said he was driving and saying that he was driving an irregular car, and he fell into the doors (synagogue).
“Maybe he thought he had a heart attack. The second he got out of the car started stabbing someone next to him. He went to the security guard and tried to enter the synagogue. He was in the courtyard.
The Great Manchester Police said that he was ‘declared Plato’ – the National Code word used when responding to the ‘plundering terrorist attack’ by police and emergency services.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, after the attack this weekend Synagogues’a “additional police assets” will be deployed, he said.
He flew early from the meeting of European leaders in Denmark to chair a Cobra meeting.
