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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

Texas siege: Manchester anti-terror police investigate financing of US trip

Counter terrorism police investigating the Texas synagogue siege are focusing on who helped to pay for Malik Faisal Akram's trip to the US, the M.E.N. has learned.

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, held four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue.

All four were released without being injured, but Mr Akram was shot and killed by the FBI following the ten-hour siege earlier this month.

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