LONDON: The man who attacked a Manchester synagogue made an emergency call to police during the rampage to “pledge allegiance” to the Daesh group, UK counter terrorism police revealed Wednesday. The attacker, identified as Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police within seven minutes of the attack, in which two Jewish people were killed — one likely by a stray police bullet. But “in the initial stages of the attack...

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Footage given to the BBC shows a man matching the description of the attacker given by witnesses.