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2 dead in attack targeting

German synagogue on

Yom Kippur

By GEIR MOULSON The attacker shot at the
JENS MEYER door of the synagogue in
Associated Press the eastern city of Halle but
HALLE, Germany (AP) — A did not get in as 70 to 80
heavily armed assailant people inside were observ-
ranting about Jews tried to ing the holy day.
force his way into a syna- The gunman shouted that
gogue in Germany on Yom Jews were "the root" of
Kippur, Judaism's holiest "problems" such as femi-
day, then shot two people nism and "mass immigra-
to death nearby in an at- tion," according to a group
tack Wednesday that was that tracks online extrem- Police officers walk in front of a Jewish cemetery in Halle, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019.
livestreamed on a popular ism. One or more gunmen fired several shots on Wednesday in the German city of Halle.
gaming site. Continued on Page 9 Associated Press