A 69-year-old British lawmaker from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party was stabbed multiple times while meeting with constituents at a
church,
witnesses and media said.
David Amess, who represents Southend West in
Essex,
eastern England, was stabbed by
a man who walked
into the meeting at a Methodist Church.
Police said a man was arrested after a stabbing. Amess's office confirmed he had been stabbed, but did not elaborate.
"He's still in the church and they won't let us in to see him. He
seems very serious,
" Conservative councilman John Lamb told the Basildon Echo newspaper.
He was receiving treatment on the spot for his injuries.
His condition was unclear.
Amess was first elected to parliament to represent Basildon in 1983, then ran for election in Southend West in 1997.
His website lists his main interests as "pro-life and animal welfare issues."
The stabbing at Amess meeting with his supporters echoes a case from 2010, when Labor lawmaker
Stephen Timms
survived a stabbing in his constituency office and the fatal shooting of Labor Jo Cox in 2016 just days before the Brexit referendum.
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