Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was critically injured on Wednesday in a shooting that the government called an assassination attempt and several politicians linked to the country’s stark polarisation.
Fico’s office said he was in a “life-threatening condition” after being shot multiple times as he greeted people in the town of Handlová, about 190km from the central European country’s capital, Bratislava.
The government said the 59-year-old populist, pro-Russian leader was transferred by helicopter to a hospital in the nearby city of Banská Bystrica, rather than Bratislava, because of the need for “acute intervention”.
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