{"id":175100,"date":"2025-10-02T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:24:07","slug":"two-dead-in-manchester-synagogue-attack-with-suspect-also-believed-killed-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175100\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed killed &#8211; police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewitness describes seeing man &#8216;stabbing window&#8217; and police opening firepublished at 11:44 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:44 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warning: This post contains graphic content<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our colleagues at BBC Radio Manchester have been speaking to Gareth, an eyewitness, who says he was driving his delivery van at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says he was held back in traffic, assumed it was a &#8220;normal collision&#8221;, but as he got closer he saw a man &#8220;bleeding out on the floor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth says he saw another man &#8220;laying on the floor&#8221; in front of a car, and he could hear people shouting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then describes seeing another person, a man, who he says had a knife and was &#8220;stabbing the window&#8221; of a nearby building &#8220;trying to get in&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Within seconds, the police arrived, they gave him a couple of warnings, he didn\u2019t listen so they opened fire,&#8221; Gareth explains, saying the man holding the knife then went down on the floor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man then &#8220;started getting back up and they [the police] shot him again&#8221;, Gareth says &#8211; describing it as &#8220;nerve-racking&#8221; to see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eyewitness describes seeing man &#8216;stabbing window&#8217; and police opening firepublished at 11:44 BST 11:44 BST Warning: This post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-175100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}