Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination on Wednesday, the government office said.
Fico, 59, was shot and hit in the abdomen.
A reporter from the Dennik N daily saw the premier being lifted into a car by security guards and reported that police had detained the suspected gunman.
“We confirm the attack on the prime minister,” police spokesman Matej Neumann said.
A Reuters witness heard several shots fired after the meeting in Handlova northeast of the capital Bratislava. Police detained a man and security officials pushed someone into a car and drove off, the witness said.
Similarly, broadcaster TA3 reported that four shots were fired and that the leftist prime minister had been hit in the abdomen.
