(12 Aug 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia – 11 August 2025
1. Various of assassinated Congressman Miguel Uribe’s coffin being carried into Colombia’s congress
2. Various of Uribe’s family following the coffin
3. Coffin in the halls of congress
4. Uribe’s wife and family crying over coffin
STORYLINE:
The coffin of a Colombian senator who died Monday has been brought to the country’s Congress.
The family of Miguel Uribe Turbay said the politician died at a hospital in the capital, Bogota. Uribe, 39, was shot three times, twice in the head, while giving a campaign speech in a park and had since remained in an intensive care unit in serious condition with episodes of slight improvement.
"Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our children,” his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, wrote in a social media post confirming his death. “I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you.”
Speaking to the press his wife said that she hoped those responsible would be brought to account.
A teenage suspect was arrested at the scene of the June 7 attack in a working-class Bogota neighborhood. Authorities later detained several other people, but they have not determined who ordered the hit or why.
The shooting, which was caught on multiple videos, alarmed Colombians who have not seen this kind of political violence against presidential candidates since Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar declared war on the state in the 1990s.
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