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Published 15:19 16 Jun 2016 BST
According to a Labour source, Cox was attacked sometime after 1pm after she had conducted her morning surgery for constituents.
Speaking to Sky News, witness Hithem Ben Abdallah said the weapon used to attack Jo seemed handmade.
"It looked like a gun from, I don't know, the First World War or a makeshift, handmade gun. It's not sort of like the kind of gun you see normally."
"The man stepped back with the gun and fired it and then he fired a second shot, as he was firing he was looking down at the ground," he said.
"There was a guy who was being very brave and another guy with a white baseball cap who he was trying to control and the man in the baseball cap suddenly pulled a gun from his bag".
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