The brazen attack, captured on video, recalled the political violence of past decades. The senator arrived at a hospital in critical condition.

Uribe was speaking at a campaign event when gunshots rang out. He was shot three times, including in the head, and is "fighting for his life."

A man holds a figure of the Virgin Mary with a photo of Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay of the opposition Democratic Center party outside the Santa Fe Foundation hospital, after the senator was shot during a campaign event,