By Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian Senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who was shot in the head at a campaign event two months ago, died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 39,

Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot in the head in a targeted attack which shocked the South American nation. The 39-year-old was hit by three bullets - two of them in the head and one in the leg - at a campaign rally on 7 June in the capital, Bogotá.

Miguel Uribe, a Colombian senator and presidential candidate passed away early Monday at the age of 39 after being shot in the head during a campaign event two months ago.Uribe was hit by three bullets,