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Adrian Daulby, 53, is believed to have been inadvertently shot by police and suffered a ‘single but fatal gunshot wound’.

Police also said Jihad Al-Shamie was not known to either the Government’s anti-radicalisation programme Prevent or to counter-terror police.

Jihad Al-Shamie is understood to have told a 999 caller ‘I have killed Jews in the name of the Islamic State,’ reports say

Counter terrorism police in Britain say that the assailant in last week's attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester that left two people dead had claimed allegiance to Islamic State

Counter-terrorism chiefs say killer Jihad Al-Shamie was an Islamist extremist.

Jihad al-Shamie, 35, called police in the initial stages of the attack last Thursday

Residents in Mali's capital, Bamako, are struggling with a fuel shortage due to a blockade by a militant group linked to al-Qaida

Abubakar Shekau, the erstwhile leader of the terrorist group Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (JAS), died in 2021. The west African group, also known as Boko Haram, then fell into obscurity while its breakaway faction, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), steadily rose.

Jihad Al-Shamie was born in Syria before moving to the UK as a young child.