Two people were killed on the streets of the German city of Halle on Wednesday after a suspected far-right gunman failed to storm a synagogue in an attack broadcast on a livestreaming website.

Several bystanders were also injured but a bloodbath was avoided because the shooter was unable to enter the city's synagogue, which was packed with 70 people marking the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

In headcam footage posted on Twitch the gunman fires three shotgun rounds into the synagogue’s door, but fails to break it down.

Before the shooting begins, he says in English: “My name is Anon and I think the holocaust never happened...feminism is the cause of declining birth rates in the West which acts as a scapegoat for mass immigration, and the root of all these problems is the Jew.”

The attacker was named by the German press last night as Stephan B, a 27-year-old German from the surrounding state of Saxony-Anhalt.