Hundreds of people marched through the Colombian capital Bogota on Sunday to the hospital where presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was shot in an assassination attempt the day before, remains in critical condition.
The supporters, holding the national flag and chanting slogans, gathered outside the Fundacion Santa Fe hospital, prayed for the 39-year-old senator's recovery.
Uribe Turbay, who is running for next year's presidency, was addressing a group of people in a campaign rally when armed assailants shot him from behind, said the Democratic Center, the opposition party to which the senator belongs.
Images circulating on social media shows Uribe Turbay covered in blood, apparently with a head wound, as several people held him.
The authorities have announced the arrest of a male teenage suspect allegedly involved in the shooting incident, saying that an investigation is underway to determine whether others were involved.
Speaking to the nation on Saturday night, Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned the attack on Uribe Turbay and called for unity. He vowed action and transparency in the investigation.
Supporters march to hospital praying for injured Columbian presidential candidate
Supporters march to hospital praying for injured Columbian presidential candidate
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
