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A Colombian legislator moving to beryllium the country's adjacent president was changeable and "critically" injured astatine a run rally successful Bogota, authorities person said.
Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was targeted during the run lawsuit successful a parkland successful the Fontibon country of the Colombian capital, according to the Attorney General's office.
He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and was seen covered successful humor arsenic helium was being helped by aides and radical successful the crowd.
According to a aesculapian study astatine the Santa Fe Foundation hospital, helium was admitted determination successful a "critical condition" and is inactive undergoing a "neurosurgical and peripheral vascular procedure".
Two different radical were injured but the quality of their injuries has not been made public.
A 15-year-old antheral fishy was arrested astatine the country and is being treated for a limb injury, constabulary main General Carlos Triana said.
Mr Uribe Turbay, who announced his statesmanlike bid for the right-wing Democratic Center Party successful March, was accompanied by a squad of 21 radical astatine the clip of the shooting, his bureau said, including councilman Andres Barrios.
He was hoping to tally successful the statesmanlike elections taking spot connected 31 May adjacent twelvemonth - and win President Gustavo Petro, the country's archetypal leftist leader.
His father, who was a journalist, was kidnapped and killed successful 1991 during 1 of the astir convulsive periods successful Colombia's history.
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His woman Maria Claudia Tarazone wrote connected X that helium is "fighting for his life" and urged Colombians to commune for him.
His enactment described it arsenic an "unacceptable enactment of violence", portion US caput of authorities Marco Rubio condemned it successful the "strongest imaginable terms".
Writing connected X, Mr Rubio besides urged Colombia's existent president to "dial backmost the inflammatory rhetoric and support Colombian officials".
Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, who is not related to Mr Uribe Turbay, said the gunman had "attacked the anticipation of the country, a large husband, son, brother, and a large colleague".
He cancelled a planned travel to France owed to the "seriousness of the events", his bureau said successful a statement, with instrumentality enforcement officials offering a reward to assistance prosecute the perpetrator.
Messages of enactment poured successful from elsewhere successful Latin America, with Chilean President Gabriel Boric saying: "There is nary country oregon justification for unit successful a democracy," and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa adding: "We condemn each forms of unit and intolerance."
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