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The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid and agencies in Bogotá

Shot Colombian presidential candidate survives emergency surgery

File photograph of Miguel Uribe in a jacket and tie standing applauding and calling out during a senate sitting
Miguel Uribe was shot in the back during a campaign event in the capital, Bogotá, his Democratic Centre party said. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

Miguel Uribe, the rightwing Colombian presidential candidate who was shot at a campaign event in Bogotá on Saturday, has made it through emergency surgery but is still fighting for his life, according to his wife.

Uribe, a 39-year-old senator for the opposition conservative Democratic Centre party and an outspoken critic of Colombia’s leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, was attacked as he hosted the event in a public park in the Fontibón neighbourhood of the Colombian capital.

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