British Police Call Killing Of UK MP David Amess "Terrorist Incident"
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UK MP David Amess, 69 was stabbed at around midday at a meeting at the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.
The fatal stabbing of British MP David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said Saturday, at they investigated the second killing of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016.
The Metropolitan Police said its preliminary findings had revealed "a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism".
Amess, a 69-year-old pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker, was stabbed to death inside a church on Friday while holding a fortnightly consultation with his constituents in the small town of Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, east of London.
Police arrested a 25-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of murder and recovered a knife.
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