Uribe, the country's presidential candidate, has died in Colombia.
Presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was previously attacked with firearms, has died in Colombia. This was reported on August 11 by the Bloomberg news agency.
"Colombian conservative senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay has died more than two months after he was shot during an election rally in western Bogota," the article says.
The death of the 39-year-old politician was also confirmed by his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona.
The attack on Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay in the west of the Colombian capital Bogota became known on June 8. The mayor of the city, Carlos Fernando Galan, said that the shooter had been detained.
On the same day, El Tiempo reported that the shooter in Uribe was a 15-year-old teenager. It was noted that the minor drove up to the place where the election events were taking place on a motorcycle. Then, taking out a pistol, he approached the senator from behind and fired six shots at a distance of one and a half meters, one of which hit the senator in the head.
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