Reuters. Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico was in a "very serious" but stable condition on Thursday (May 16), the country's deputy PM said, after he was shot five times in an assassination attempt that laid bare deep political divisions in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak said doctors had managed to stabilize Fico's condition overnight, and procedures were underway to secure further improvement.
Miriam Lapunikova, director of the F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital in Banska Bystrica where Fico is admitted, said the prime minister had undergone five hours of surgery with two teams to treat multiple gunshot wounds.
Slovakia will convene a state security council meeting and the cabinet will also meet from 11:00 a.m. (0900 GMT) on Thursday, the government office said.