Uribe Turbay in "critical condition" after hemorrhage in nervous system

Bogotá.- Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, seriously injured in the head in an attack on June 7, suffered a hemorrhage in the nervous system and his health condition is "critical", reported the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation, where he has been admitted for more than two months. "In the last 48 hours, his clinical condition reverted to a critical state, due to an episode of bleeding in the central nervous system. This condition required new emergency neurosurgical procedures that have managed to stabilize him," said the Foundation in a medical report.

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Uribe Turbay, 39 years old and a member of the right-wing Democratic Center party, received two shots to the head and one to the left leg while leading a political rally in a park in the Bogotá neighborhood of Modelia.