This Morning halts show as Ben Shephard delivers 'distressing' news from Manchester
This Morning, ITV viewers saw Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley detail the latest headlines on Thursday's show.
During a recent episode of This Morning, presenters Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley broke some devastating news to ITV viewers, who had recently demanded the removal of one star from the show.
As the programme resumed after an advert break, Ben announced: "We've got some quite distressing breaking news for you.
"In the last hour, police and paramedics have been responding to an attack at a synagogue in Manchester.
"We can say that four people have been injured, the police have confirmed the suspect has been shot."
LBC presenter Nick Ferrari was in the studio and was able to provide more details on the heart-wrenching incident, reports Wales Online.
He remarked, "This is the highest of high holidays for Jewish people, it's Yom Kippur, so that is why the police will have units quite close to synagogues.
"Manchester has the second-highest number of Jewish people living in the whole of the United Kingdom."
The TV personality explained to viewers that the incident took place outside Heaton Park synagogue on Middleton Road.
Nick continued, "It is believed that a man drove a car, deliberately, towards four people. One of whom has received stab wounds. Police were called, and it is reported that within seven minutes, they'd opened fire and they've shot the suspect.
"It is reported that the suspect has been killed, but that is yet to be confirmed."
According to the Manchester Evening News, several hospitals have been put on lockdown following the incident.
Greater Manchester Police have released a statement saying: "We're responding to an incident outside a synagogue on Middleton Road in Manchester.
"Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public and one man had been stabbed.
"GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender.
"Paramedics arrived at the scene at 9.41 and are tending to members of the public, currently four members of the public with injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds.
"Members of the public are asked to avoid the area while the police continue to deal with the incident."
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