Slovakia Prime Minister shot 

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot multiple times and rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

He was shot after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. 

“After the government meeting in Handlova, there was an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico”, the government said in a post on social media.

“He is currently being transported by helicopter to Banska Bystrica in a life-threatening condition, because it would take too long to get to Bratislava due to the necessity of an acute intervention”, it said.

Fico, a populist leader accused of being Kremlin-friendly, has been prime minister since last year.

Slovak President Zuzana Caputova said she was “utterly shocked by today's brutal and reckless attack on Slovakia's prime minister... which I condemn in (the) strongest possible terms”.