Miguel Uribe, leader of Colombian right opposition, shot in Bogota

BOGOTA — Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay was changeable Saturday successful Bogota, according to the authorities and his party. There was nary contiguous confirmation of his condition.

The 39-year-old legislator is simply a subordinate of the absorption blimpish Democratic Center party, founded by erstwhile Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The 2 men are not related.

According to a enactment connection condemning the attack, the legislator was hosting a run lawsuit successful a nationalist parkland successful the superior connected Saturday erstwhile “armed subjects changeable him successful the back.”

The enactment described the onslaught arsenic superior but did not disclose further details connected his health.

Colombia’s presidency issued a connection saying the authorities “categorically and forcefully” rejected the convulsive onslaught and called for a thorough investigation.

Uribe’s mother, the writer Diana Turbay, was killed successful 1991 during a rescue cognition aft she was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel.