Eleven people were killed and six were wounded on Saturday after a gunman opened fire on a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The gunman, who was identified as Robert Bowers and was later taken into custody, yelled “All jews must die” as he carried out the attack, according to US media. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the U.S. Department of Justice will file hate crime and other criminal charges against the suspect and that it could eventually lead to a death penalty. “We believe this is the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the United States,” the Jewish non-governmental organisation ‘Anti-Defamation League’ said. President Trump called the shooting a “terrible thing” and insisted that the incident has got nothing to do with gun laws, noting that the US “should stiffen up with our laws of death penalty.” “There must be no tolerance for anti-Semitism. It must be condemned and confronted everywhere and anywhere it appears,” the president added. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also condemned the attack on Twitter, stating, “I condemn the terror attack against a Pittsburgh synagogue and extend my…
11 Killed in ‘Deadliest Attack on Synagogue in United States’
October 27, 2018
