🫨 An echo to Colombia’s bloody past

COLOMBIA

Assassination attempt of presidential candidate harks back to Colombia’s bloody past

The streets of the Colombian capital of Bogota rattled over the weekend, and not just from the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that forced residents out of buildings in panic. Hours before the tremors, a jolt of another kind shook the city: the attempted assassination of conservative senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay.

Uribe, 39, was shot twice in the head and once in the leg on Saturday while addressing a crowd in the city’s Modelia neighborhood. The gunfire, captured in harrowing videos from multiple angles, transformed a campaign rally into a crime scene.

As of Tuesday, Uribe is in critical condition at La Fundacion Santa Fe hospital, following neurosurgery and a procedure on his left thigh. Doctors have not issued a prognosis, and his wife said he is “fighting for his life.”

Police swiftly arrested a 15-year-old suspect and recovered a 9 millimeter Glock at the crime scene. Colombia’s attorney general said the crowd had beaten the boy, who is currently receiving medical care. Authorities are investigating who may have ordered the attack.

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