Colombia senator, 39, dies weeks after being shot at campaign event

Presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe was changeable successful Bogota connected June 7 during a rally and underwent aggregate surgeries earlier his death.

Colombian statesmanlike hopeful Miguel Uribe, who had been warring for his beingness since helium was changeable successful June during a run event, has died, according to his family.

Uribe, a 39-year-old legislator and a imaginable statesmanlike campaigner from the right-wing opposition, was changeable successful Bogota connected June 7 during a rally and underwent aggregate surgeries earlier his death.

“I inquire God to amusement maine the mode to larn to unrecorded without you,” his wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, wrote connected societal media. “Rest successful peace, emotion of my life, I volition instrumentality attraction of our children.”

Uribe enjoyed a accelerated governmental rise, becoming a recognised lawmaker for the Democratic Centre party. He was seeking to tally successful the 2026 statesmanlike election.

A 15-year-old lad was arrested astatine the country with a “9mm Glock-type firearm” and has pleaded not guilty aft being formally charged connected June 10 with attempted murder, the prosecutor’s bureau said.

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