{"id":223068,"date":"2016-06-16T22:53:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223068"},"modified":"2016-06-16T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T22:53:40","slug":"british-mp-killed-in-horrific-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/british-mp-killed-in-horrific-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"British MP killed in horrific shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed in a “horrific” assault in her constituency, police have said.<\/p>\n
Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground after the attack in Birstall, West Yorkshire. A man was arrested nearby.<\/p>\n
One eyewitness told the BBC they heard her attacker shout “put Britain first” at least twice beforehand.<\/p>\n
Tributes flooded in from politicians including David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and US Secretary of State John Kerry.<\/p>\n
Mrs Cox’s husband Brendan said she would want people “to unite to fight against the hatred that killed her.”<\/p>\n
Vote Leave and Remain have both suspended campaigning in the EU referendum in light of the attack.<\/p>\n
Mrs Cox, 41, is the first sitting MP to be killed since 1990, when Ian Gow was the last in a string of politicians to die at the hands of Northern Irish terror groups.<\/p>\n
The man taken into custody was arrested in Market Street, not far from Birstall Library where Mrs Cox was holding a constituency surgery. He has been named locally as Tommy Mair.<\/p>\n
Dozens of Mrs Cox’s friends and colleagues gathered for a vigil at St Peter’s Church in Birstall earlier.<\/p>\n