Shooting the victim of Colombia Senator Urby Turbay is critical after brain surgery Armed violence news

The assassination attempt on the presidential hope rocked the country, which is afraid to return to the dark days.

Colombian Senator Miguel Orepe Turai It is reported that it is in a very critical condition after undergoing surgery to tend to bleed in the brain, just more than a week after the shooting of his head during the campaign event.

The attack was part of the eruption of violence, which sparked fears of returning to the darker days of assassinations and bombings.

Santa Foundation Hospital said on Monday that Aurby was stable after undergoing a “complementary” operation for his original surgery, but he remained in a serious critical condition.

He added that the speedy nervous procedure was necessary due to clinical evidence and photography that shows severe bleeding between the disorder, but the brain swelling has been difficult to control.

The 39 -year -old presidential candidate from the right -wing opposition was shot twice on June 7 during a gathering in Bogota.

The assassination attempt, which was arrested on the video, recalled a series of assassinations nominated in the 1980s and 1990s, while the fighting between armed rebels, paramilitary groups, drug dealers and state security forces did not touch the lives of many Colombians.

Three suspects, among them the 15 -year -old alleged shooter, are being held. A man and an adult woman.

The 15 -year -old, the police, believed to be “Sicario” or two killers working for money, was. He was accused last week With an attempt to kill Urby, who admitted that he was not guilty. He was charged with a firearm.

The adult, Carlos Eduardo Mora, was charged with his alleged involvement in planning the attack, and the provision of Venice and its presence in the car where the shooter changed his clothes after the attack, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

Orepe is Senator of the Conservative Democratic Center party and one of the candidates who hops behind left -wing President Gustavo Petro in Presidential Vote 2026.

It comes from a prominent political family. His grandfather, Julio Cesar Turai, was the president from 1978 to 1982, and his mother, Diana Turay, was killed in 1991 in a failed rescue attempt after her kidnapping an armed group led by Lord Pablo Escobar drugs.

The faction of the main defector of the rebel group in the former Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia (FARC) on Friday denied the responsibility for the attack on Orepe, although it accepts the responsibility of a series of unrelated bombs attacks.

Southwest Colombia has been threatened by a A series of explosions and weapons attacks Last week, which left at least seven people. Kali attacks, the third largest city in the country, and nearby cities in Coronto, Al Bordeaux and Jamondi, targeting police stations and other municipal buildings with cars and motorcycles, and gun fire and drone.

The Colombia government has struggled to contain violence in urban and rural areas, as many rebel groups are trying to take over the lands of Fark after its peace agreement with the government.

Peace talks between the FARC-Dec faction and the government were disrupted last year after a series of attacks on indigenous societies.