Two teenagers have been arrested in the United Kingdom, in connection with a British national who took four hostages at a Texas Synagogue on Saturday, police have said. “As part of the ongoing investigation into the attack that took place at a Synagogue in Texas on 15 January 2022, Officers from the Counter Terror Policing North West have made two arrests in relation to the incident,” a counter terrorism police unit of the Greater Manchester Police said on Sunday. “Two teenagers were detained in South Manchester this evening,” the police added in the statement posted on Twitter. “They remain in custody for questioning.” The FBI identified British national Malik Faisal Akram, 44 from the industrial town of Blackburn in the north of England, as the hostage-taker on Sunday. Akram, who was killed by an FBI SWAT team at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, near Forth Worth, had been heard demanding the release of …
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