British officials confirm that one of two victims killed in Thursday’s U.K. synagogue terror attack was accidentally shot by police responding to the incident.
One of the two victims who died in the terrorist attack on a U.K. synagogue on Yom Kippur was accidentally shot by Manchester police as they rushed to subdue the attacker, British officials confirmed on Friday.
Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed on Thursday after 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, Jihad Al Shamie, plowed his car into pedestrians and then stabbed at least one other victim.
The incident resulted in two killed and four others injured.
But according to Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir Stephen Watson, Al Shamie, who was killed at the scene by British police, was not found to have been carrying a gun.
« It follows therefore, that subject to further forensic examination, this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end », Watson said in a press update on Friday.
