British MP David Amess was on Friday stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, Sky News and the BBC reported.
Local police did not name Amess but confirmed that officers “were called to reports of a stabbing” shortly after 12:05 pm (1105 GMT). “A man was arrested shortly after & we’re not looking for anyone else,” the force said on Twitter.
He was treated by emergency services but died at the scene.
Sir David is the second sitting MP to be killed in the last five years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016.
She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.A Conservative backbencher for nearly forty years, Sir David entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Basildon.He held the seat in 1992, but switched to nearby Southend West at the 1997 election.
