Colombian opposition senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in Bogotá on Saturday evening, in an attack that has shocked a country with a long history of political violence.
Uribe Turbay, 39, was leaving a campaign event in the capital city organised by his opposition Democratic Centre party when “armed subjects shot him in the back”, according to a party statement.
A witness told local newspaper El Tiempo that Uribe was saying goodbye to attendees when a man on the back of a motorcycle fired three shots, one of which hit him in the head and another in the chest. The mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Galán, said that the gunman had been arrested.