Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot and wounded in the abdomen after a government meeting. Fico has been transported by helicopter to Banska Bystrica hospital in a life-threatening condition, the Slovak government office said. Reports on Slovakian TV station TA3 said Fico was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in the town of Handlova. A suspect has been detained, it said. Police sealed off the scene.
The Slovak government was meeting in Handlova, 190km northeast of Bratislava, as part of a tour of the country’s regions after coming to power late last year. Fico returned as prime minister of the central European country, which is a member of the European Union and NATO, for the fourth time last year after shifting political gears to appeal to a changing electorate.
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