Man in US synagogue attack ‘lost family members in Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’

Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, near Detroit, Michigan (Paul Sancya/AP)

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large US synagogue in what officials say was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalised US citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, Michigan and driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire, according to authorities.