US authorities identified the guy who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue as a British citizen on Sunday, and UK police later arrested two teenagers in connection with the crime, which President Joe Biden described as a “act of terror.”
The FBI identified the captor as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram, who died in the 10-hour siege in the small hamlet of Colleyville on Saturday.
Two suspects were arrested and questioned by Britain’s counter-terrorism police hours later in connection with the event.
“Two teenagers were detained in South Manchester this evening. They remain in custody,” the Greater Manchester Police said in a statement.
There was “no indication” that anyone else was engaged in the attack on the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, according to the FBI’s Dallas field office.
The four hostages, including a respected local rabbi named Charlie Cytron-Walk, were released unhurt on Saturday night, bringing relief to the Jewish community in the United States, where Biden reinforced appeals to combat anti-Semitism.
