Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico was on Wednesday shot multiple times and rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a cabinet meeting, officials said, in an attack condemned by EU chiefs. Fico, a populist leader accused of…

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt and was in a life-threatening condition Wednesday.

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a "life-threatening condition" in hospital following an "assassination attempt," his office has said. Fico was shot following a cabinet meeting in the central town of Handlova.

The incident took place in Handlova, a town 150 kilometres north east of the capital Bratislava

The PM was shot on Wednesday afternoon as he walked out into the crowd after a cabinet meeting.

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt after a government meeting on Wednesday.

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.

Robert Fico is in a life-threatening condition, the Slovak government office said in an emailed statement.