A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful was shot on Saturday while at a campaign event in Bogota, according to multiple reports.

Miguel Uribe, 39 and a member of the right-wing Democratic Center party, was holding an event in Fontibon, a suburb of the capital city, when “armed subjects shot him in the back,” according to a statement from his party.

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While Uribe’s condition his unknown, Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan revealed that Uribe was receiving “emergency care” and the hospital network “is o

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