A Colombian right-wing opposition senator and candidate to next year’s presidential election was in intensive care Saturday after being shot during a campaign event in Bogota, authorities said.
A video circulating on social media shows 39-year-old Miguel Uribe giving a speech in front of several people when gunshots suddenly ring out.
In other images he appears slumped against the hood of a white car, smeared with blood, as a group of men try to hold him up.
Media reported the suspected shooter was a teenager who had been arrested.
Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo told Caracol Radio that Uribe was in “intensive care.”
Local media reported that at least one bullet struck the senator in the neck or head.
The government of leftist President Gustavo Petro said it “categorically and f