it was awful. he s such a kind gentle soul. reporter: amos died while helping his community meeting face-to-face with voters, a so-called constituency surgery, answering queries, solving problems. listening to gripes. police say they received a call about a stabbing around noon. they were on the scene of the church within minutes but they say amos had been stabbed multiple times and the emergency services couldn t save him. a knife was found at the scene and a 25-year-old man arrested. police say they are not looking for anyone else at this time. the investigation is in its very early stages. and is being led by officers from the specialist counterterrorism command. reporter: his killing is the first of a sitting mp since labor s joe cox was shot and stabbed by a man with extreme right wing views five years ago. from across the political
and to help do that, the counterterrorism command brings a vast array of assets. there is their domain. to build that social-media picture of this person. who was he talking to? who was he connected with? what sort of person was he? was he mentally stable? these are going to be the key questions and that s what the counter terrorism command will bring this to investigation. will security change for british lawmakers going forward? i know there s a lot of concern right now, understandably so. reporter: yeah, wolf, this is really a big topic of conversation in the uk right now. five years ago, the labor mp, joe cox, was murdered by a right-wing gunman who shot her then stabbed her in the streets of her constituency. so to have what at the surface at the moment appears to be a repeat of that. where the mp is meeting with constituents in an open forum as
when they arrived, they found sir david amess mp who had suffered multiple injuries. this was a difficult incidence that our officers and paramedics from the ambulance service worked extremely hard to save sir david. tragically, he died at the scene. a 25 year old man was arrested immediately at the scene on suspicion of murder, he remains in custody. a knife was also recovered at the scene. the investigation is in its very early stages and is being led by officers from the specialist counterterrorism command. we made it clear at the time of the incident that we did not believe there was any immediate further threat to anyone else in the area. it will be for investigators to determine whether or not this is a terrorist incident. as always, they will keep an open mind. today is a tragic day for the family and
kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. let s return to leigh on sea, and join our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. bring us up to date with the latest on the investigation. bring us up-to-date with the latest on the investigation. bring us up-to-date with the latest on the investigation. well, scotland yard s counterterrorism on the investigation. well, scotland yard s counterterrorism command l on the investigation. well, scotland i yard s counterterrorism command has only been in charge of this investigation for a few hours but already they ll be bringing their huge resources, experience and expertise to bear will stop they will be hoovering up huge amounts of physical evidence, cctv evidence, phone evidence, computer evidence, the resources they bring really are quite enormous compared to a normal investigation, and of course they will also be liaising with the intelligence service, the security service m15 to try and build up a background of the suspect that is in custod
yogita limaye, bbc news, kabul. the united states has announced that it some breaking news on our top story from the merger of the british mp sir david amess. we have had a press release just brought out in the last few minutes by the police. and it says here according to the press release that sir david amess s murder has now been declared a terrorist incident. a terrorist incident with the potential motivation linked to islamist extremism. so the counterterrorism command leading the investigation, they set a fatal stabbing has been declared and their working closely with the colleagues eastern region specialist operations unit and essex police. it also goes on to say that at the scene they talk in detail about what happened. they also then say that a