Two UK teenagers were on Monday being questioned by counter-terrorism detectives as police and MI5 joined the FBI in probing the Texas synagogue siege in which an armed British hostage taker was shot dead.
The unnamed pair were arrested in Manchester on Sunday night over their links to Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old from Blackburn who held four people inside the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in the Dallas suburb of Colleyville during an 11-hour stand-off, in what US President Joe Biden described as “an act of terror”.
