Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay is the sufferer of an assault in a public occasion in Bogotá | EUROtoday

Miguel Uribe Turbay, senator and candidate for the Presidency, has been the sufferer of an assault this Saturday afternoon in Bogotá, the Colombian capital. The politician, a member of the Democratic Center Party, attended a marketing campaign political occasion within the Modelia neighborhood, when he was gunshot wounded, in line with native media. A video after the assault exhibits him unconscious and bleeding from the aspect of his head, whereas attendees transfer him in the direction of an ambulance.

According to the primary reviews, the senator was greeting folks, in El Golfito Park, after they shot him. The escorts reacted instantly and was rapidly transferred to a clinic within the capital.

The politician is a member of the opposition Democratic Center, led by former proper -wing president Álvaro Uribe, and can be the son of Diana Turbay, a famend journalist who was kidnapped in 1990 by Pablo Escobar, and subsequently murdered the next yr. The senator can be Nieto of former President Julio César Turbay Ayala, who dominated Colombia from 1978 to 1982.

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