A Colombian presidential candidate has been shot and critically injured at a marketing campaign occasion within the capital, Bogota.
Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was hit 3 times – reportedly twice within the head – by a gunman whereas he was addressing a small crowd in a park on Saturday.
Police arrested a person on the scene. Uribe is in essential situation in hospital, in keeping with Colombian media.
Uribe’s Centro Democratico occasion condemned the assault, saying that it “endangers the lifetime of a political chief… democracy and freedom in Colombia”.
Telephone footage shared on-line seems to indicate the second when he was shot within the head mid-speech, prompting these gathered to flee in panic.
Paramedics mentioned he had been shot 3 times, together with twice within the head, AFP information company reported.
The federal government of left wing President Gustavo Petro mentioned it “categorically and forcefully” condemned the assault as an “act of violence not solely in opposition to his particular person, but additionally in opposition to democracy.”
Uribe, a well known member of the political institution in Colombia, introduced his candidacy for subsequent 12 months’s presidential election in October.
He’s the son of Diana Turbay, a journalist who was killed in 1991 in a rescue try after she had been kidnapped by the Medellin medicine cartel run on the time by Pablo Escobar.