Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is in critical condition after he was shot five times following a government meeting Wednesday.
“He is fighting for his life,” Defense Minister Robert Kaliňák told press outside the hospital where Fico is being operated on. “We are hoping that he is strong enough to make it.”
“He suffered a polytrauma,” Kaliňák said, adding that Fico has been in surgery for three and half hours. “It’s a really complicated health condition.”