A Colombian presidential candidate shot at a campaign event in June has deteriorated to critical condition due to a new cerebral hemorrhage, doctors treating him said Saturday.

Conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, 39, was speaking to supporters in the capital, Bogota, when a gunman shot him twice in the head and once in the knee.

He has been in intensive care since then, and undergone multiple surgeries. In recent weeks his relatives had welcomed progress in his care.

But now Uribe has been put back under deep sedation, the Santa Fe Foundation hospital said in a statement.

Uribe needs “new neurosurgical procedures” after presenting with a hemorrhage in his central nervous system, the statement said. “His condition is critical.”

Authorities have arrested six suspects in the attack. They

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