Somali Held Over Stabbing of British MP

Date: 17 October 2021 - 21:18

News ID: ۹۵۵۶۳

NAIROBI/LONDON (Reuters) -- Ali Harbi Ali, the son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia, has been arrested by British police under anti-terrorism laws following the killing of lawmaker David Amess, a source close to the investigation and British media said.
Amess, 69, from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday Friday in the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London.