LONDON: British police on Friday named the two men killed in an attack on a Manchester synagogue as Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, who were both local residents. The men were killed on Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians and then began stabbing them outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the city in northern England. The attacker, since named as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, was shot dead at the scene by armed officers.

The attack took place as people gathered at an Orthodox synagogue on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.

The attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester comes as Jewish people observe the holiday of Yom Kippur.