In critical condition the senator is hospitalized in the hospital Miguelafter the shootings received on Saturday (8.6.25) during a pre -election event in her Bogota Colombian.
Uribe “completed the first surgery,” said Carlos Fernando Galan, stating that the conservative senator is spending “critical hours”, Following the shots received by a minor.
Earlier, Santa Fe Hospital, where Uribe was rushed to a helicopter, had pointed out that he would undergo neurosurgery.
“He fights for his life,” wrote Uribe’s wife, Maria Claudia Tarasona, to the Senator’s account in X, adding: “God let the doctors lead.”
Two people, a man and a woman, were injured in the attack, whose motives are not yet known.
According to the wounded carriers who received the senator, he has received two bullets on his head and one on the knee.
Miguel Uribe Turbay left the surgery alive after the attack against him.
Its condition remains delicate, but it is reported stable after the operation.pic.twitter.com/RD7gY3KuY0– José Díaz (@jjdiazmachuca) June 8, 2025
In the meantime, the office of Colombian Attorney General announced that ‘one minor under 15 years of age He was arrested with a Glock (9mm) pistol “and added that the Colombian president Gustavo Peter He has requested an investigation to identify the people who organized and ordered the attack.
Opponents to #MiguelUribeTurbay He has tried to manage the theory of a self -sight …
Here is clearly seen the moment when the 15 -year -old hitman shoots the presidency aspirant and as moments before he was in coordination combines Mrs. Mayor.
What do you think? … pic.twitter.com/SGtM1elR8g– Víctor Cabrera (@victorcabreramx) June 8, 2025
The 39 -year -old Senator of the Conservative, opposition Democratic Center party, was shooting during a election campaign in a park in Fontibon in Colombia last Saturday.
People have gathered outside the Santa Fe hospital, with some lighting candles and praying others holding Colombia flags.
Miguel Uribe, who is not officially a candidate for his party for the May 2026 presidential election, comes from a large political family of Colombia.
Is Grandson of Julie Cesar TourbaiPresident of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 and her son Diana Tourbaia journalist who had been abducted by drug baron abduction Pablo Escobar and killed in 1991 during the military operation to rescue it.