New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Colombia's President hopeful Miguel Uribe died on Monday two months after being shot at a political rally in June, his family has said. He was 39 at the time of his death.

Miguel Uribe Turbay's family announced his death on the day, saying that the politician passed away at a hospital in Colombia's capital Bogota more than two months after the attack.

"Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our children," his wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, wrote in a social media post confirming his death. "I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you."

On June 7, Uribe sustained fatal injuries after he was shot three times, twice in the head, while giving a campaign speech in a park and had remained in an...