BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, who had been hospitalized since he was shot in the head in June during a campaign event, has died, his family said on Monday.

Uribe, 39, a potential presidential candidate from the right-wing opposition, was shot in Bogota on June 7 during a rally.

“I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you,” his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona wrote on social media. “Rest in peace, love of my life, I will take care of our children.”

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta and Nelson Bocanegra; Editing by Julia Symmes Cobb)

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