Slovak Prime Minister shot, according to local media

Lhe Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and hospitalized after a cabinet meeting in Handlova, in central Slovakia, local press reported.

Map of Slovakia locating the town of Handlova in the center of the country, where the Slovak Prime Minister was shot and wounded on May 15 (Photo by Valentin RAKOVSKY / AFP) – AFP_INFOG

The newspaper Dennik N, whose reporter saw the head of government taken away in a car by bodyguards, claimed that the suspected shooter had been apprehended by the police.

Robert Fico, Slovak Prime Minister, at a European Summit in April. – AFP
Suspect arrested after attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Suspect arrested after attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. -Reuters.

Prime Minister taken to hospital

Robert Fico was treated at a hospital in Handlova and is now being transported to the capital Bratislava, the director of the hospital in the central Slovak city told AFP on Wednesday.

“Mr. Fico was brought to our hospital and was treated in our vascular surgery unit,” said Marta Eckhardtova. “The Prime Minister was then transported out of our hospital, he is on his way to Bratislava,” she said.

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