Bratislava: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after being shot several times, Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba said.
“Mr Fico’s surgery had gone “well” and “I guess that at the end he will survive”, Tomas Taraba said.
As per the Deputy PM, one bullet went through Fico's stomach and a second hit a joint.
Fico, 59, survived an assassination attempt and was left in critical condition and had to go through surgery after being shot five times while leaving a government meeting a day earlier.
The shooting in the central Slovak town of Handlova, which Slovak media said was carried out by a 71
year-old man, stunned the small central European nation and drew international condemnation.
A suspect was detained at the scene of the shooting.