In a statement, Counter Terrorism Policing North West said that minutes after the first call was made during the attack, al Shamie called 999 himself.<\/p>\n
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2:17<\/p>\n
Manchester synagogue terrorist: what we know now<\/p>\n
The force said that during the call, he claimed responsibility for the attack and “pledged allegiance to Islamic State”.<\/p>\n
It is also understood that counter-terror police believe that al Shamie, a Syrian-born UK citizen, was influenced by extremist Islamist ideology.<\/p>\n
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2:59<\/p>\n
Guard describes confronting killer<\/p>\n
Two people were killed during the car and knife attack, while al Shamie was shot dead by police at the scene. Three other people remain in hospital.<\/p>\n
Adrian Daulby, 53, is believed to have been shot dead by police while attempting to prevent al Shamie entering the synagogue.<\/p>\n
He was killed together with Melvin Cravitz, 66, from Crumpsall, a worshipper who helped prevent the attacker from getting into the premises.<\/p>\n
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2:44<\/p>\n
Synagogue victim ‘wants to leave country’<\/p>\n
Read more: 2:42<\/p>\n Family of synagogue attack victim speak to Sky News<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Counter Terrorism Policing North West said on Wednesday: “We can confirm that, in the initial stages of the attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, a call was made by the attacker to police claiming to pledge allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n “We are continuing to investigate the full circumstances and motivation behind what happened. The investigation is continuing at pace.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manchester synagogue terrorist made a call to police during the attack where he pledged allegiance to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-185897","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\/185897","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=185897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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