Slovak Prime Minister Fights for Life After Being Shot Multiple Times

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in critical condition after being shot multiple times following a political event. Doctors are fighting to save his life.

Slovak Defense Minister Robert Kalinak announced that doctors are fighting for the life of the country’s prime minister, who was shot multiple times following a political event.

Kalinak, a close ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Smer-Social Democracy party, made the statement Wednesday evening to reporters at a hospital in Banska Bystrica.

He said an operation on Fico was not yet complete and described his condition as “extraordinarily serious.”

Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday after a political event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe.

The pro-Russian leader, 59, was reported to be fighting for his life after being hit in the stomach. At least four shots were fired outside a cultural center in the town of Handlova, nearly 140 kilometers (85 miles) northeast of the capital, where Fico was meeting with supporters, the government said.

A suspect was in custody, the country’s president said in a televised statement. Fico was taken by helicopter to a hospital.

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