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Conservative MP Amess Dies From Stab Wounds After Attack At Surgery

UK

Multiple outlets reporting that Conservative MP for Southend-On-Sea Sir David Amess has died from the wounds sustained in a stabbing at a constituency surgery earlier today.

  • Amess is the second UK MP to have been killed in office in the past five years after Labour's Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 (also at a constituency surgery).
  • Police have the suspect in custody, but have made no statement on their identity or motive.

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