'This will not break us' Residents call for unity amid the sadness

"These people are sent to divide us, but they won't," said Barry Moore as he walked his dog near the site of the attack on a synagogue in Manchester.

- Chris Osuh

On the gently sloping street where two people were killed and four seriously injured in the attack at the synagogue, neighbours from different faiths pulled together.

Jewish residents evacuated from their homes on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, chatted with Muslim neighbours behind the cordon at Middleton Road, Crumpsall, sharing bottles of water, blankets and best wishes.

Black and white residents came to the scene to express their shock and sadness at the horror that unfolded at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue yesterday morning, as police investigated two scenes a short distance apart - the synagogue, and a residential address cordoned off as part of the investigation, after the suspect was shot dead by police.

As a Christian church set up a stall nearby to hand out food to strangers, Moore, 55, walking his dog, Remi, remembered the last attack that rocked his "great community"- the 2003 murder of the police officer Stephen Oake a short distance away from Crumpsall Lane, at the hands of the terrorist Kamel Bourgass.