A Colombian senator hoping to be the nation’s subsequent president stays in a vital situation and has proven little response to remedy after he was shot on Saturday, the hospital treating him has mentioned.
Miguel Uribe Turbay, a member of the opposition right-wing Democratic Middle Celebration, was shot within the head throughout a marketing campaign occasion at a public park within the Fontibon neighbourhood of the Colombian capital Bogota.
“His situation is extraordinarily critical,” the Santa Fe Basis hospital mentioned in a press release immediately.
“Subsequently, the prognosis stays guarded.”
The replace got here earlier than the top of Colombia’s nationwide police mentioned the 9mm pistol used within the assault was legally bought in Arizona within the US.
Authorities are investigating the way it received into Colombia.
The Lawyer Common’s Workplace, which is investigating the capturing, mentioned the 39-year-old senator suffered two gunshot wounds within the assault.
The hospital had mentioned on Sunday that Mr Uribe Turbay was in a vital situation and had procedures on his head and his left thigh. It added that he remained in intensive care as docs sought to stabilise his situation.
In the meantime, a 15-year-old boy was arrested at the scene with a firearm.
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Police chief Common Carlos Triana later mentioned the teenage suspect was being handled for a leg harm.
Lawyer Common Luz Adriana Camacho mentioned on Monday that authorities have but to interrogate the boy as he has been receiving medical care.
Nonetheless, she mentioned that if {the teenager} had been a gun-for-hire, he would probably have little details about the hirer’s motive.
Two different folks had been injured within the assault, however the nature of their accidents has not been made public.
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay is carried to an ambulance. Pic: Reuters
A soldier guards the hospital the clinic the place Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay is being handled. Pic: AP
Mr Uribe Turbay’s spouse Maria Claudia Tarazona mentioned on Sunday that he had survived an preliminary operation for his accidents however remained in intensive care.
“Miguel got here out of surgical procedure, he made it. Each hour is a vital hour. He fought his first battle, and it went properly,” Ms Tarazona informed native media. “This can take time.”
The couple are dad and mom to a younger son.
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Maria Claudia Tarazona exterior the hospital the place Miguel Uribe Turbay is being handled. Pic: AP
Miguel Uribe Turbay in Bogota in Could. Pic: AP
Mr Uribe Turbay, a right-wing politician from a outstanding political household, introduced earlier this 12 months that he wished to run for president and was vying to be his get together’s candidate in Colombia’s presidential election in March 2026.
It was unclear why he was focused within the assault. He was polling properly behind different get together candidates on the time of the capturing.
Mr Uribe’s grandfather was president from 1978 to 1982, whereas his mom, journalist Diana Turbay, was kidnapped in 1990 by an armed group below the command of the late cartel chief Pablo Escobar.
She was killed throughout a rescue operation in 1991.
Folks collect to hope for Miguel Uribe Turbay’s restoration within the metropolis of Cali. Pic: AP
Folks maintain candles as they collect exterior the hospital the place Miguel Uribe Turbay is being handled. Pic: AP
Bogota’s mayor, Carlos Galan, whose personal presidential candidate father was assassinated in 1989, addressed journalists
exterior the hospital in a single day, saying he had requested for elevated safety for all candidates in Bogota and for Mr Uribe’s household.
The federal government is providing a $730,000 (£540,000) reward for data, and President Gustavo Petro mentioned the investigation will deal with who ordered the assault.
“For now, there may be nothing greater than a speculation,” he mentioned, including that failures in safety protocols would even be appeared into.
Mr Uribe Turbay was accompanied by a workforce of 21 folks on the time of the capturing, his workplace mentioned, together with councilman Andres Barrios.
His get together 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 defend Colombian officers”.
