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\nSmoke could be seen billowing from what appeared to be a fire in the building<\/p>\n
An unidentified shooter has been killed after exchanging gunfire with security in an attack on a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said the gunman was dead following the attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield.<\/p>\n
Police did not immediately confirm the death of the assailant but said no one else appeared to have been hurt.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officers flooded the area soon after the incident, amid heightened tension nationwide over the US-Israeli war against Iran.<\/p>\n
Watch: Police at scene of synagogue shooting in Michigan<\/p>\n
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“At least one individual came to the temple,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told reporters.<\/p>\n
“Security saw him, engaged him in gunfire,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Nobody at the moment has been confirmed to be hurt except potentially the shooter,” Mr Bouchard said.<\/p>\n
“We’re looking to see if it was more than one person,” he added.<\/p>\n
\nSmoke could be seen billowing from what appeared to be a fire in the building<\/p>\n
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer condemned the attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, a northwest suburb of Detroit.<\/p>\n
“This is heartbreaking,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Michigan’s Jewish community should be able to live and practice their faith in peace,” Ms Whitmer added.<\/p>\n
“Anti-Semitism and violence have no place in Michigan,” she said.<\/p>\n
The sheriff said law enforcement had been on high alert since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran nearly two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been talking for two weeks about the potential, sadly, of this happening,” Mr Bouchard said.<\/p>\n
“So there was no lack of preparation.<\/p>\n
“All Jewish facilities in the area are going to have a lot of extra presence around it until we figure this out,” the sheriff said.<\/p>\n
Television images showed a massive law enforcement response in the area around the synagogue.<\/p>\n
Smoke could be seen billowing from what appeared to be a fire in the building.<\/p>\n
Local media reported that the assailant had first rammed a car into the synagogue.<\/p>\n
The Jewish Federation of Detroit said Jewish agencies were in precautionary lockdown.<\/p>\n
“We ask community members to stay away from the area at this time,” it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified shooter has been killed after exchanging gunfire with security in an attack on a synagogue on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-343011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}