Slovakian prime minister’s condition ‘not life threatening’ after shooting

Rescue workers wheel Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, to a hospital (Jan Kroslak/AP)

Slovakia’s populist prime minister Robert Fico is “not in a life threatening situation” after he was shot multiple times and gravely wounded on Wednesday, his deputy prime minister has said.

The prime minister had been greeting supporters at an event in the town of Handlova, 85 miles north-east of the capital.