Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot at a campaign rally, his family said Monday, as the attack rekindled fears of a return to the nation's violent past.

The 39-year-old conservative senator, a grandson of former president Julio Cesar Turbay (1978-1982), was shot in the head and leg on June 7 at a rally in the capital Bogota.

Despite signs of progress in recent weeks, his doctors on Saturday announced he had suffered a new brain hemorrhage.

"Rest in peace, love of my life," his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona wrote Monday morning in a post on Instagram.

"Thank you for a life full of love."

Authorities have arrested six suspects linked to the attack, including the alleged shooter, a 15-year-old boy captured at the scene by Uribe's bodyguards.

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