Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a imaginable campaigner successful the country's statesmanlike predetermination adjacent year, was changeable and wounded astatine a run rally successful Bogota connected Saturday, authorities said.
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His blimpish Democratic Centre enactment released a connection calling it an “an unacceptable enactment of violence”.
The onslaught took spot successful a parkland successful the Fontibon neighbourhood erstwhile equipped assailants changeable him from behind, his enactment said.
Images circulating connected societal media showed Uribe Turbay covered successful blood, seemingly with a caput wound, being held by respective people. So far, nary authoritative study has been released connected the senator's condition.
The suspected shooter has been captured, Bogotá Mayor Carlos Galán, said connected X. But the national authorities said it was offering a reward for the seizure of those responsible.
Uribe Turbay is simply a right-wing legislator and the lad of a writer who was kidnapped and killed during 1 of the astir convulsive periods successful the country, which has been ravaged by a cause war. He is considered a imaginable statesmanlike campaigner successful Colombia's predetermination successful May 2026.
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