Two teenagers have been detained in South Manchester as part of an ongoing investigation into a Texas synagogue hostage-taking incident
After hours of a standoff with law enforcement, all hostages were freed and the captor was killed in a shooting incident, police said.
The UK's counter terrorism police said on Sunday the teenagers were detained in connection with the hostage-taking incident by a British national in Texas over the weekend. The arrests came after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the hostage-taker as British national Malik Faisal Akram, 44.
Akram could be heard ranting on a Facebook livestream of the services and demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to al Qaida who was convicted of trying to kill US Army officers in Afghanistan.
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