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(12 Aug 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia - 12 August 2025
1. Mourners arriving to pay respects for Miguel Uribe, opposition senator and presidential hopeful, as his body lies in state in Congress
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2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jhonatan Moreno, mourner:
"Miguel Uribe, (was) a leader, a fighter, a warrior who fought for Colombia and for our homeland, for our military and our police officers."
3. Honor guards next to the coffin of Uribe on one side and a large photograph of Uribe on the other
4. People lining up outside to enter and pay their respects
5. Police checking people as they advance in the line to enter Congress building to pay respects to Uribe
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6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jhonatan Moreno, mourner:
"The people are sad. Desolate, abandoned. Hungry, without medicine, and abandoned by a government."
7. Various of people waiting outside Colombian Congress for Uribe's lying in state
STORYLINE:
Mourners are paying their respects to Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe as his body lies in state in Congress on Tuesday.

Uribe, 39, an opposition senator and presidential hopeful died after being shot at a political rally two months ago.

Uribe was shot three times while giving a campaign speech in Bogota and had been in intensive care since the attack.

Jhonatan Moreno, a mourner, said Uribe was a leader and warrior who fought for Colombia.

AP video by Marko Alvarez and Samuel Sotomayor

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