LONDON: A 31-year-old man was arrested at an airport in northwest England on Thursday in connection with last month’s Manchester synagogue attack in which two people died.
The man was detained on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, Greater Manchester Police said.
He was arrested at Manchester Airport after arriving on an inbound flight and remains in custody for questioning, the force added.
A total of seven people have now been arrested in connection with the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on October 2.
A 30-year-old man arrested on October 9 on suspicion of failing to disclose information under the Terrorism Act remains on bail, according to police.
Five of those arrested have been released without charge.
Syrian-born UK citizen Jihad Al-Shamie started his attack by driving his Kia Picanto at security staff and the external gates of the synagogue.
Worshippers had gathered there for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Wearing a fake suicide belt, he then stabbed father-of-three Melvin Cravitz, 66, multiple times and tried to storm the synagogue before being shot dead by police.
Cravitz died from multiple knife wounds inflicted by Shamie, an inquest heard.
Adrian Daulby, 53, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest that had been fired by a police officer responding to the situation.
Man arrested over UK synagogue attack: police
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Man arrested over UK synagogue attack: police
- A 31-year-old detained on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism
- Two people were killed when Syrian-born UK citizen Jihad Al-Shamie attacked worshippers at the Synagogue in Manchester last month
Four killed in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv exchange drone strikes
- Kyiv said Russian drone strikes had killed two people and wounded seven more in Kharkiv
- Synegubov said two people had been killed in the attack on the Shevchenkivsky district
KHARKIV, Ukraine: Russian and Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least four people Wednesday, officials said, as the war between the neighbors dragged on for more than four years with no diplomatic breakthrough in sight.
The latest attacks came with a third round of three-party talks derailed by the war in the Middle East, despite pressure from Washington on both sides to agree to an elusive peace deal.
Kyiv said Russian drone strikes had killed two people and wounded seven more in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which lies close to the Russian border, was encircled at the beginning of Russia’s invasion four years ago.
It has been attacked almost daily since Moscow’s forces were pushed back later in 2022.
The governor of the wider region, Oleg Synegubov, said two people had been killed in the attack on the Shevchenkivsky district.
“A civilian enterprise caught fire as a result of the enemy strike,” he said, adding that three women and four men had been hospitalized.
Another Russian drone wounded 20 people in the afternoon, after hitting a civilian minibus in the southeastern city of Kherson, Ukrainian prosecutors said.
In the Russian-occupied part of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow-installed authorities said two civilians had been killed in their car by a Ukrainian drone strike on the frontline town of Vasylivka.
“The danger of repeated strikes remains,” Kremlin-appointed governor Yevgeny Balitsky said.
