Miguel Uribe, chief of Colombian proper opposition, shot in Bogota

BOGOTA — Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot Saturday in Bogota, based on the federal government and his occasion. There was no rapid affirmation of his situation.

The 39-year-old senator is a member of the opposition conservative Democratic Heart occasion, based by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The 2 males are usually not associated.

Based on a celebration assertion condemning the assault, the senator was internet hosting a marketing campaign occasion in a public park within the capital on Saturday when “armed topics shot him within the again.”

The occasion described the assault as severe however didn’t disclose additional particulars on his well being.

Colombia’s presidency issued an announcement saying the federal government “categorically and forcefully” rejected the violent assault and referred to as for a radical investigation.

Uribe’s mom, the journalist Diana Turbay, was killed in 1991 throughout a rescue operation after she was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel.