Colombians have bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died this week more than two months after being shot during a political rally.

Miguel Uribe Turbay was critically wounded on June 7 during a campaign rally in the country's capital, suffering gunshot wounds to the head and leg.

A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful whose shooting at a political rally recalled some of the darkest chapters of the country's drug-fueled violence has died. The family of Miguel Uribe Turbay said the 39-year-old politician died Monday at a hospital in the capital,