Colombian senator Uribe dies weeks after campaign rally shooting in Bogota

By Efe Ozkan

ISTANBUL (AA) - Miguel Uribe Turbay, a Colombian senator and presidential candidate died on Monday, more than two months after being shot during a campaign rally in western Bogota, his family said.

The 39-year-old had been hospitalized since he was shot in the head during a campaign event on June 7.

"I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you," his wife Maria Claudia Tarazona wrote on social media. "Rest in peace, love of my life, I will take care of our children."

The right-wing presidential hopeful was shot twice in the head and once in the left leg while addressing supporters in Modelia, a neighborhood in the capital, Bogota.

He underwent two surgeries on the night of the attack at Santa Fe Hospital and had been hospitalized since.