A Colombian senator working to be the nation’s subsequent president was shot and “critically” injured at a marketing campaign rally in Bogota, authorities have stated.
Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was focused in the course of the marketing campaign occasion in a park within the Fontibon space of the Colombian capital, in line with the Legal professional Normal’s workplace.
He suffered two gunshot wounds and was seen lined in blood as he was being helped by aides and folks within the crowd.
In keeping with a medical report on the Santa Fe Basis hospital, he was admitted there in a “vital situation” and continues to be present process a “neurosurgical and peripheral vascular process”.
Two different individuals have been injured however the nature of their accidents has not been made public.
A 15-year-old male suspect was arrested on the scene and is being handled for a leg harm, police chief Normal Carlos Triana stated.
Mr Uribe Turbay, who introduced his presidential bid for the right-wing Democratic Middle Get together in March, was accompanied by a workforce of 21 individuals on the time of the taking pictures, his workplace stated, together with councilman Andres Barrios.
He hoped to run within the presidential elections going down on 31 Could subsequent yr – and succeed President Gustavo Petro, the nation’s first leftist chief.
His father, who was a journalist, was kidnapped and killed in 1991 throughout some of the violent intervals in Colombia’s historical past.
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His spouse Maria Claudia Tarazone wrote on X that he’s “preventing for his life” and urged Colombians to hope for him.
His celebration described it as an “unacceptable act of violence”, whereas US secretary of state Marco Rubio condemned it within the “strongest attainable phrases”.
Writing on X, Mr Rubio additionally urged Colombia’s present president to “dial again the inflammatory rhetoric and shield Colombian officers”.
Police exterior the hospital the place Mr Uribe Turbay is being handled. Pic: AP
Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, who isn’t associated to Mr Uribe Turbay, stated the gunman had “attacked the hope of the nation, an amazing husband, son, brother, and an amazing colleague”.
He cancelled a deliberate journey to France because of the “seriousness of the occasions”, his workplace stated in a press release, with regulation enforcement officers providing a reward to assist prosecute the perpetrator.
Messages of assist poured in from elsewhere in Latin America, with Chilean President Gabriel Boric saying: “There is no such thing as a room or justification for violence in a democracy,” and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa including: “We condemn all types of violence and intolerance.”
