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Slovakia PM Robert Fico in ‘very serious’ condition after being shot

Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak speaks to the media outside the FD Roosevelt University Hospital where Robert Fico was taken, in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia [Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is stable but his condition remains “very serious”, his deputy has said, after an assassination attempt that shocked the country and drew global condemnation.

Fico, 59, was shot five times in the central town of Handlova on Wednesday after he left a government meeting. He was in critical condition and underwent several hours of emergency surgery.

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