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One of the victims who died in Manchester attack likely shot by officers, police say

One of the two victims killed in the Manchester synagogue terror attack was likely hit by police gunfire as officers stopped the attacker, Greater Manchester Police said.

  • An armed officer likely shot a civilian during a response to a terrorist attack at a synagogue in Manchester on October 2, 2025, as confirmed by Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson.
  • The attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, was not armed with a firearm, and police fired the only shots that resulted in injuries.
  • Two victims, including Adrian Daulby, were positioned behind the synagogue door and were shot while trying to prevent the attacker from entering.
  • A compensation scheme has been established for victims, offering up to £500,000, and the attack is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.
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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…

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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.

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Manchester, UK. One of the two victims who died on Thursday in the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, in northern England, received a bullet from law enforcement that intervened to neutralize the attacker, police reported on Friday.The two people who died in the attack, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were members of the Jewish community in Manchester and residents of the Crumpsall neighborhood, where the synagogue is located.

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One of 2 victims in Manchester synagogue attack apparently shot accidentally by police

British police say one of the two men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester may have been killed by a bullet fired by a police officer. Greater Manchester Police chief Stephen…

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KBZK broke the news in on Friday, October 3, 2025.
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