'The second he got out of the car he started stabbing anyone near him' - what onlookers saw
'The second he got out of the car he started stabbing anyone near him' - what onlookers saw
Shocked eyewitnesses have described the "horrendous" scene as a car and stabbing attack left two people dead and three others injured outside a synagogue in Manchester.
Police said a car was driven at members of the public during the incident in Crumpsall and a man, named by police as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, was shot dead by firearms officers.
A delivery driver said he saw what first appeared to be a car crash before realising there was a man with a knife.
"We thought we could see a car that had crashed, so we just thought it was a normal collision, but when we got a bit closer we saw a guy bleeding out on the floor," he said.
"And then there was a guy in front of the car, he was lying on the floor, and there were a few people standing in the road."
The man, who gave his name as Gareth, told BBC Radio Manchester : "Somebody shouted 'he's in the school or the synagogue' and then as we looked over the guy had a knife and he was just stabbing the window, trying to get in [the building], and within seconds the police arrived.
"They gave him a couple of warnings, he didn't listen, so they opened fire. He went down on the floor and then he started getting back up and then they shot him again."
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