Slovakia’s PM makes first public appearance since assassination attempt

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives for a cabinet’s away-from-home session in the town of Handlova, Slovakia (Radovan Stoklasa/AP)

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first public appearance on Friday since he was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.

Mr Fico has been recovering at home from multiple wounds he suffered in the May 15 attack when he was shot in the abdomen as he greeted supporters in the town of Handlova, nearly 85 miles northeast of the capital.