Colombia presidential candidate shot, injured

The right-wing senator and candidate in the Colombian presidential elections next year Miguel Uribe is was injured after being hit by gunshots from fire in Bogota. This is reported by numerous local media, while the government speaks of an "attack". Uribe, 39, is now in critical conditions while a person was treated in arrest. "Violence can never be the way...I hope "I sincerely hope that (Uribe) is well and out of danger," he wrote Colombian Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia on social media. In a video published on social networks you can see the candidate who is holding a rally when the explosions of numerous gunshots directed towards the political. Other images, then, show the man, now deprived of senses and bleeding, leaning on a white car while some collaborators try to take him to medical assistance. Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan said Uribe is was "emergency operated on" and that the "attacker was questioned". The government of left-wing President Gustavo Petro condemned "categorically and energetically the attack". "This is an act of violence not only against the physical integrity of the senator - wrote the presidency in a note - but against democracy, freedom of thought and the legitimate exercise of politics in Colombia".