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One of victims killed in Manchester synagogue attack was hit by police gunfire · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Now let's return to one of our top stories, which
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  Speaker 1: is the aftermath of the attack on the heat And
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  Speaker 1: Park Synagogue in Manchester. We can cross live to my
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  Speaker 1: colleague Anita McPhee who's there for us. And Anita, we've
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  Speaker 1: just had an update from the police. What can you tell.
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  Speaker 2: Us, Yes, just in the last few moments the news
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  Speaker 2: from Greater Manchester Police who say that one of the victims, So,
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  Speaker 2: one of the men killed yesterday here at the Heaton
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  Speaker 2: Park Synagogue, which is just not very far along the
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  Speaker 2: road behind me, was hit by police gunfire as they
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  Speaker 2: attempted to bring the attacker under control. So one of
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  Speaker 2: the victims who was killed was hit by police gunfire.
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  Speaker 2: My colleague Danny Savage is with me now and can
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  Speaker 2: tell us more about what Greater Manchester Police have been saying.
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  Speaker 3: Danny, Yeah, Anisa that this has come in a statement
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  Speaker 3: from Greater Manchester Police in the last few minutes, and
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  Speaker 3: just to give you a bit more detail of that,
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  Speaker 3: they're saying that a Home Office pathologist has advised that
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  Speaker 3: he has provisionally determined that one of the deceased victims
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  Speaker 3: would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a
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  Speaker 3: gunshot injury. It's current belief that the suspect she had
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  Speaker 3: al Shammi, was not in possession of a firearm, and
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  Speaker 3: the only shots fired were by the GMP police officers
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  Speaker 3: who were working to prevent the offender from entering the
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  Speaker 3: synagogue and causing further harm to the Jewish community. It
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  Speaker 3: follows therefore, that, subject to further forensic examination, this injury
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  Speaker 3: may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen
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  Speaker 3: consequence of the urgently required action taken by officers to
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  Speaker 3: bring the vicious attack to an end. We've also been
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  Speaker 3: advised by medical professionals that one of the three victims
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  Speaker 3: currently being treated in hospital also suffered a gunshot wound,
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  Speaker 3: which is mercifully not life threatening. It's believed that both
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  Speaker 3: victims were close together behind the synagogue door as worshipers
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  Speaker 3: acted bravely to prevent the attacker from gaining entry. It
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  Speaker 3: goes on to say, our thoughts and prayers remain with
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  Speaker 3: all the families, So there was some This was alluded
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  Speaker 3: to a little bit last night, and in that statement
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  Speaker 3: initially from Greater Manchester Police last night saying that one
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  Speaker 3: of the people who was injured appears to have suffered
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  Speaker 3: an injury sustained perhaps from the response by the police
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  Speaker 3: officers at the time. What is obviously very tragic and
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  Speaker 3: new what's coming out from that this morning is that
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  Speaker 3: actually one of the people who died in the attack yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: in the incident more broadly, was a victim with a
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  Speaker 3: gunshot wound as well from perhaps a ricochet or something
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  Speaker 3: when we don't know, but you know shots.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be the subject of sense investigation.
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  Speaker 3: But we know from my witnesses yesterday there were a
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  Speaker 3: couple of bursts of gunfire at the time, or first
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  Speaker 3: burst of gunfire brought the man to the grounds. He
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  Speaker 3: then carding to wine witnesses try to get up again,
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  Speaker 3: and there was a second volley of shots then which
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  Speaker 3: stopped him permanently. So that we know there were quite
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  Speaker 3: a few shots fired at the time by at least
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  Speaker 3: two armed police officers that responded very quickly. We know
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  Speaker 3: it was all over within seven minutes yesterday, very fast
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  Speaker 3: response from police and it seems that this was a
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  Speaker 3: as it says in the police stavement from Greater Manchester Police.
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  Speaker 3: A tragic consequence of that fast response was somebody being
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  Speaker 3: hit as a result of those shots been fired. Who
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the perpetrator of the attack.
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  Speaker 2: Or obviously very shocking news on top of the shock
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  Speaker 2: of this attack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know, people are coming to
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  Speaker 3: terms of the fact that a it happens, but then
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  Speaker 3: to find out that they were killed ineffectively, not the
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  Speaker 3: crossfire necessarily wherever those shots were fired, bullets could have
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  Speaker 3: bounced off in any direction. We know, I'm not a
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  Speaker 3: ballistics expert. Some people, but those experts will be looking
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  Speaker 3: at that to see how exactly that all came about
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  Speaker 3: what happened. But it was a very fast moving situation.
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  Speaker 3: It was all happening very quickly yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: What else can you tell us about the status of
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  Speaker 2: the police investigation at this point Downy? I believe searchers
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  Speaker 2: have been continuing out of property close to here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, searchers have been continuing at a property close to here.
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  Speaker 3: We've also had searches at an address in press Witch,
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  Speaker 3: which is a few miles from here as well. So
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  Speaker 3: two properties were investigated by police during the day yesterday
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  Speaker 3: and the evening as well. Three arrests were made. Two
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  Speaker 3: men in their thirties a woman in her sixties were
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  Speaker 3: arrested and detained under on suspicion of terrorism charges. So
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  Speaker 3: they're being held in custody at the moment, So those
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  Speaker 3: investigations are ongoing. We've of course had the two victims
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  Speaker 3: nameless morning and so we know who they are. Now
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  Speaker 3: we're waiting to see if any of their relatives or
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  Speaker 3: people who know them will comment about that. And also
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  Speaker 3: we've had an.
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Dorby three and Melvin Province who was sixty six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so those two victims, the two victims of what
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  Speaker 3: happens has been named, and we've had the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 3: here this morning as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Danny, let me interrupt you because we have some pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a chance to catch up on the
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  Speaker 2: latest lines coming into us from Greater Manchester Police. But
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  Speaker 2: we have received some pictures in the last short while
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  Speaker 2: off Sir Kiir Starmer and his wife, Lady Victoria, who
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  Speaker 2: herself is Jewish, visiting the Hayton Park Synagogue, images of
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  Speaker 2: them shaking hands with police officers there who continue to
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  Speaker 2: guard the scene just a short way away from where
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  Speaker 2: we are standing. And we heard those initial comments from
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  Speaker 2: Sir Kiir Starmer yesterday who flew back from Denmark early
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  Speaker 2: from a security conference there, a security summit there to
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  Speaker 2: chair a meeting of COBRA, the Security Cabinet, and he
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  Speaker 2: said that the UK would put its arms around the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish community. And then we heard more from the Home Secretary,
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  Speaker 2: shabanahmer Mood, speaking to the BBC earlier today, and she
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  Speaker 2: said that she did not want the Jewish community in
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  Speaker 2: the UK to feel that it somehow had to lead
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  Speaker 2: a smaller Jewish life as a result of what had
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  Speaker 2: happened here yesterday, and that she would be having conversations
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  Speaker 2: with leaders from the community to talk about security and
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  Speaker 2: what more needs to be done. But talking to Jewish
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  Speaker 2: leaders here today and just reflecting on what some of
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  Speaker 2: them have said to me, one from the Jewish Leadership
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  Speaker 2: Council told me that security at synagogues and at Jewish
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  Speaker 2: schools and community centers is what he called the normalization
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  Speaker 2: of anti Semitism in the UK. He said it shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be that way. For example, that children going to Jewish
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  Speaker 2: schools have to walk past security guards every day, which
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen at others rules here does it So yet
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  Speaker 2: he recognizes that certainly for the foreseeable future, there is
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  Speaker 2: that need to increase security, so those conversations are going on.
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  Speaker 2: He said, the resilience of the Jewish community is being
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  Speaker 2: tested at this time.