Handlova: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was attacked by an unidentified person on Wednesday after cabinet meeting. He was severely wounded with multiple shots in an assassination attempt

He was battling life-threatening wounds after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt. European leaders condemned the attack on Slovakian PM.

Dramatic footage from the scene in central Slovakia shows security agents grabbing a wounded Fico from the ground and hustling him into a black car that speeds away as police handcuff a person on the pavement. Police detained the suspected gunman at the site of attack in Handlova.

I am shocked; we are all shocked by the terrible and heinous attack, said outgoing Slovak President Zuzana Caputova, told media persons after the seemingly unprecedented act of violence against a Slovak prime minister.

According to the Government sources today, after the Government meeting in Handlova, there was an assassination attempt on Fico, adding he was flown to hospital in a life-threatening condition.

Images from public television RTVS showed a person on a stretcher taken out of a helicopter by medics and wheeled into a hospital. Handlova local hospital director Marta Eckhardtova said Fico was brought into our hospital and he was treated at our vascular surgery clinic. She was unable to describe his injuries.