[gatagato]

She was a mother of two

British lawmaker Jo Cox was in a critical condition after being shot and stabbed in her constituency in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

The 41-year-old Labour Party member was attacked near Birstall’s library where she holds advice surgeries, Sky News reports. According to the BBC, she has been taken by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary where armed police are outside the hospital.

Her husband, Brendan Cox, tweeted this photograph of the MP by the barge where she stayed in London.

Speaking to Sky News, witness Hishem Ben Abdallah says a man pulled a gun out of his bag, which looked like a “First World War or a makeshift, handmade gun,” before attacking Cox. He was fought off by a local man who may have been injured in the scuffle. The assailant is reported to have shouted ‘Britain First’ during the attack.

Speaking to the BBC another eyewitness said: “He shot this lady and then shot her again. He lent down. Someone was wrestling with him and he was wielding a knife and lunging at her. Three times she was shot. People were trying to help her. Then he ran off down a one-way street. Me and my mate drove round to try and find him.”

http://time.com/4371330/jo-cox-shot-...stall-england/
A statement by the local West Yorkshire Police says that a 52-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the incident. The BBC tweeted an image of the arrest of a man nearby:

Believed to be moment of arrest of man involved in #Birstall incident http://bbc.in/1Ub2PI1

UPDATE

Jo Cox dead: Labour MP dies after being shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire

[hulk]

They need better gun laws over there...

[Sabconth]

Originally Posted by hulk ↗

They need better gun laws over there...

If he had access to an assault rifle this would've been much worse.

I'll take a few hundred deaths per year by attackers that can be easily subdued compared to America's thousands of deaths a month by well armed lunatics.

[Steve]

So close to me yet it's the first I have heard of it.

[Nasty Nuggets]

Originally Posted by Sabconth ↗

If he had access to an assault rifle this would've been much worse.

I'll take a few hundred deaths per year by attackers that can be easily subdued compared to America's thousands of deaths a month by well armed lunatics.

"The FBI’s report for violent crime in 2014 revealed that only 248 people were killed from any form of rifle including rifles in the AR-15 platform."

Most of our gun homicides are inner city blacks shooting each other with illegal guns, that's why gun control won't work.

[Meridian]

Originally Posted by Top Gear ↗

So close to me yet it's the first I have heard of it.

Really? It's been news saturation. All campaigning cancelled.

Really horrible case. He kicked her to the ground, stabbed her at least 6 times and shot her 3 times with some sort of antique makeshift gun, last shot was to the head as she lay there.

[sonicyouth]

Lawmaker? Local MP.
On the radio it said he had ties with some far right white supremacist group in the USA and that ten years ago had been supplied manuals and instructions to make a home made gun. Pretty shocking for these parts.

[TheVrist]

Originally Posted by sonicyouth ↗

Lawmaker? Local MP.
On the radio it said he had ties with some far right white supremacist group in the USA and that ten years ago had been supplied manuals and instructions to make a home made gun. Pretty shocking for these parts.

Downloading a manual, on the internet, and watching a handful of Dr. William Pierce's youtube videos, hardly gives you "ties" to American white supremacy groups". Typical smear campaign, trying to paint #BREXIT as a hate movement.

[TheVrist]

[danielsan]

Originally Posted by TheVrist ↗

Wrong, unfortunately. And I'm not getting into a debate, I have not the time or patience.