Colombian Senator Uribe dies after an assassination attempt at the election campaign event

Colombian Senator Uribe dies after an assassination attempt at the election campaign event

Miguel Uribe Turbay, a Colombian Senator and Presidential candidate, who over two months ago after a assassination attempt at an election event was admitted to the hospital. His wife announced this on Monday.

serious incident in Bogotá

Uribe, 39 years old and a potential presidential candidate of the right -wing extremist opposition, was shot in the head during a rally in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. The hospital in which Uribe, the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, reported on Saturday that Uribe's state of health was "critical" due to a "hemorrhagic event in the central nervous system".

emotional reactions to his death

"I ask God to show myself the way how I can live without you," wrote Maria Claudia Tarazona, Uribes wife, on social media and announced so that her husband died.

tribute of political leaders

Iván Duque Márquez, Colombia's President from 2018 to 2022, honored Uribe and explained that "terrorism" had taken a "righteous and transparent leader" to the country. "Colombia mourns, but it will not bend the criminals who have taken the life of an admired young man," said Duque, who also lists the Centro Democrático party, who belonged to Uribe.

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