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Cox was a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party.
Updated : Jun 16, 2016, 10:20 PM IST
British Local police on Thursday night said confirmed that British MP Jo Cox died after being stabbed and shot at in her constituency in northern England.
Jo Cox, 41, who was a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party, was attacked as she prepared to hold a meeting with constituents in Birstall near Leeds. West Yorkshire Police said a 52-year-old man had been arrested by armed police and that a woman in her 40s had suffered serious injuries. Police did not give any further details of the attack.
The death of Jo Cox is a tragedy. She was a committed and caring MP. My thoughts are with her husband Brendan and her two young children.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) June 16, 2016
It's right that all campaigning has been stopped after the terrible attack on Jo Cox. I won't go ahead with tonight's rally in Gibraltar.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) June 16, 2016
British Local plice chief said that full investigation of the matter was underway to establish motive of the attack on Cox.
British lawmakers are currently not in parliament ahead of next week's referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union. The campaign for Britain to remain in the bloc said it was suspending campaigning for the day and the "Vote Leave" group said it had also suspended activities from its official touring campaign bus.
A man in his late 40s to early 50s nearby also suffered slight injuries, police said. BBC radio reported that Cox had been taken by air ambulance to a nearby hospital. One eyewitness told Sky News that Cox had intervened in a scuffle between two men, one of whom had pulled a gun from a bag which had then been fired twice.
"I saw people rushing down the road towards the library. I came out with a couple of people from the restaurant ... we saw a man wearing a dirty white baseball cap with grey jacket start jostling with somebody," said Hichem Ben-Abdallah.
"All of a sudden this guy pulls a gun ... it looked like a First World War gun or makeshift gun, not the sort of gun you see normally. He fired the first shot then I ran away and then we heard the second shot."
Cox, a Cambridge University graduate, was an aid worker before becoming Labour lawmaker for Batley and Spen in 2015.
Known for her work on women's issues, she has worked with several charities.