The programme delivered further details on the devastating update.

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GB News was interrupted for a breaking announcement (Image: GB News)

GB News was paused for an update on the attack in Michigan which left at least one person dead. The incident occurred when a vehicle crashed into a Michigan synagogue in West Bloomfield Township. The driver reportedly mounted the pavement and ploughed into the building, driving through the doors of Temple Israel synagogue and then down a hallway before it caught fire.

GB News presenter Ben Leo announced that the suspect has been named as Ayman Mohammed Ghazali, a Lebanese national who arrived in the US in 2011. The host told viewers: “He’s a Lebanese national who first entered the US in 2011 on an RI1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a US citizen. He was naturalised into a US citizen in 2016 during the Obama Administration.”

Back in the GB News studio, presenter Bev Turner said: “It’s all too common, isn’t it? People who weren’t born here, come here wishing harm to Americans.”

GB News guest Stephen said: “I suppose that is common. I think on the other side of the aisle they would say that all sorts of people who are homegrown get radicalised under different ideologies and cause a great amount of harm.

“I wouldn’t want to make it about that but there is no getting around the fact that the last four radical attacks that we’ve seen in just the past couple of weeks came from people from Senegal, Afghanistan, Turkey, Sierra Leone, Lebanon.”

He added: “But there’s a huge trend here, it’s hard to look away.”

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The attacker was found dead inside the vehicle (Image: Getty)

Ghazali, 41, was fatally shot by security officers and found dead inside the vehicle.

Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office, said the crime was a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”. She said at a news conference that the FBI is leading the investigation.

None of the synagogue’s staff, teachers, or the 140 children attending its early childhood center, some as young as four, were injured. One security officer was hit by the vehicle and knocked unconscious, but did not suffer life-threatening injuries.

It is believed 30 law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation.