British MP fatally stabbed at voter meeting

LEIGH-ON-SEA, England — A British lawmaker was stabbed to death on Friday in a church by a 25-year-old man who lunged at him at a meeting with voters from his constituency, knifing him repeatedly in an attack which politicians described as an assault on democracy.

David Amess, a 69-year-old lawmaker from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, was attacked at around midday at a meeting at the redbrick Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-sea, east of London.

Paramedics fought to save his life on the floor of the church - where a sign says “All are welcome here: where old friends meet and strangers feel at home” - but in vain.