Miguel Uribe Turbay, a senator and presidential candidate, has died after spending two months in the ICU after being shot during a rally by a minor who was acting as a hitman.

Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot in the head in a targeted attack which shocked the South American nation. The 39-year-old was hit by three bullets - two of them in the head and one in the leg - at a campaign rally on 7 June in the capital, Bogotá.

Colombians mourned Miguel Uribe, 39, an opposition senator and presidential hopeful who died after being shot at a political rally two months ago.