British Conservative MP David Amess, 69, was stabbed repeatedly on Friday October 15 during a parliamentary office he held at a church in his constituency in Leigh-on-Sea, east London, according to local media.
Local police announced the arrest of a man, and confirmed that a person had been stabbed, without specifying his identity.
She said she was not looking for "
anyone else
" after the arrest.
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A witness named Anthony described on LBC radio a large police deployment there.
“
I saw someone being taken out of the building, put in the back of a police car
,” he said.
"
Apparently he has been stabbed several times,
" he added of the MP.
Political reactions immediately poured in, in a country marked by the street-level assassination in 2016 of Euro-politician Jo Cox a week before the Brexit referendum by a neo-Nazi sympathizer.
"
Horrible and deeply shocking
news," tweeted Labor Opposition Leader Keir Starmer, addressing his thoughts to the MP, his relatives and collaborators.