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Police declare Manchester synagogue deadly attack a terrorist incident [SOUND]

# Police say the deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, has been declared a terrorist incident. Two people were killed and four others wounded yesterday when a man drove a car into pedestrians, then attacked people with a knife outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. The attack happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Greater Manchester Police Chief Stephen Watson says the attacker was shot dead by armed forces at the scene:

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