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The Prime Minister of Slovakia<\/a>, Robert Fico was shot multiple times and critically injured in a \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d assassination attempt on Wednesday, according to the interior minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York reports that the 59-year-old Fico was shot by a gunman five times on Wednesday and underwent several hours of emergency surgery.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba told reporters he believed the operation had gone well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess in the end he will survive,\u201d Taraba told the British broadcaster\u2019s Newshour programme. \u201cHe\u2019s not in a life-threatening situation at this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taraba said one bullet went through\u00a0Fico\u2019s stomach and a second hit a joint.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok told a briefing outside the hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica that the prime minister was in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n

The shooting was \u201cpolitically motivated and the perpetrator\u2019s decision was born closely after the presidential election\u201d, he said, referring to the election in April, which was won by a Fico ally.<\/p>\n

Police have arrested a suspect and an initial investigation found \u201ca clear political motivation\u201d behind the assassination attempt, Sutaj Estok said. The suspect was a 71-year-old man, he said, confirming Slovak media reports that he was a writer.<\/p>\n

The shooting in the central town of Handlova, 190km (118 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava, stunned the central European nation and drew international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Read Also: <\/strong>Slovakia Elects New President Amid Ukraine War Divisions<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The shooting took place after Fico left a government meeting. He was rushed to hospital in the town and later taken by helicopter to Banska Bystrica for urgent treatment.<\/p>\n

President Zuzana Caputova condemned \u201ca brutal and ruthless\u201d attack on the prime minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m shocked,\u201d Caputova said. \u201cI wish Robert Fico a lot of strength in this critical moment and a quick recovery from this attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

President-elect Peter Pellegrini, an ally of Fico, called the assassination attempt \u201can unprecedented threat to Slovak democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we express other political opinions with pistols in squares, and not in polling stations, we are jeopardising everything that we have built together over 31 years of Slovak sovereignty,\u201d Pellegrini said.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s defence minister called the shooting a \u201cpolitical assault\u201d.<\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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