[Livia]

Bomb Disposal in attendance.

[AnnieK]

All hospitals are locked down currently. My friend works at Salford Royal and they are literally locked in their offices

[Livia]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

All hospitals are locked down currently. My friend works at Salford Royal and they are literally locked in their offices

Hope you're okay Annie and that this is not near you or your boy.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Livia

Hope you're okay Annie and that this is not near you or your boy.

I'm not too close and Matthew's school is the other side of Manchester but its pretty close to my Dad's house.

Just awful....

[Livia]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I'm not too close and Matthew's school is the other side of Manchester but its pretty close to my Dad's house.

Just awful....

Your Dad reminds me of my Dad from what you've said, so I'm sure he'll be fine x

[AnnieK]

One member of the public has now died

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

One member of the public has now died

oh no

[Livia]

It's being reported that the SAS are on the ground. I wonder whether they're expecting more perpetrators are still in the area.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Livia

It's being reported that the SAS are on the ground. I wonder whether they're expecting more perpetrators are still in the area.

if the SAS are on the ground, they must have intelligence that it's a terrorist cell

[Livia]

Originally Posted by bots

if the SAS are on the ground, they must have intelligence that it's a terrorist cell

If I was in Manchester I'd be feeling safer already.

[arista]

Originally Posted by bots

if the SAS are on the ground, they must have intelligence that it's a terrorist cell

Yes looks that way

[Beso]

Get his ethnicity out...lile you promised you would

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Beso

Get his ethnicity out...lile you promised you would

Yes, should have full details any minute....

[Barry.]

Terrible. What causes people to do things like this

[Livia]

Synagogues and Jewish schools have security guards and all kinds of security measures because of Islamic terrorists. It would have been a Muslim. It looks like a Muslim in the photos. Let's see how long it takes to officially reconise that fact.

[bots]

it's now 2 that have died

[arista]

A Controlled Explosion
was just done.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by arista

A Controlled Explosion
was just done.

Hopefully he was still attached.

[arista]

The Image of the Killer, I posted
has now been shown on all TV news.

[arista]

Locals have confirmed
Two were taken away in handcuffs

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by arista

Locals have confirmed
Two were taken away in handcuffs

So there’s more than one attacker?

[Crimson Dynamo]

‘We’ve faced tsunami of hatred since Oct 7’, says worshipper
A regular worshipper at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue has described this morning’s attack as a “culmination of something the Jewish community has been fearing for two years”.

Raphi Bloom, co-chairman of North West Friends of Israel, told Sky News: “This attack is a culmination of something the Jewish community have been fearing for two years.

“We’ve been faced with a tsunami of Jew hatred since October 7 - vandalism, physical attacks, online abuse, mistreatment in the NHS by medics. University students have been intimidated and been attacked on campus.

“We’ve had hate marches every week throughout our street with disgusting Holocaust imagery comparing Jews to Nazis.

“And ultimately, almost every Jew in this country realised that this day would come. I never thought it would happen at my synagogue, to my friends, to my rabbi, in my city.

“It’s something we feared would come and has happened because there has been such inaction to tackle this wave of hatred targeting the Jewish community in the UK over a conflict two and a half thousand miles away.”

He called on every Jewish organisation in the UK to have “large fences around it” and 24-hour security.

[arista]

New Scotland Yard
confirmed 2 arrested


Also now confirmed as a Terrorist Attack.

[bots]

its been declared a terrorist incident .... no ****

[arista]

PM Starmer back in England
on his way to Downing Street.


I hope he goes live soon.