by Alex Oliveira at New York Post
Frightening footage has emerged of the moment a gunman fired five shots at the Slovakian prime minister in a violent assassination attempt – as the leader underwent surgery and is no longer in critical condition, officials confirmed.
The clip showed Prime Minister Robert Fico greeting supporters in his country on Wednesday afternoon when a man in a white shirt lunged across the crowd with a pistol pointed at the politician.
Gunfire rang out and the prime minister, 59, lurched backward, then police and security agents tackled the gunman to the ground, the footage circulating on social media showed.
Fico was hit by at least two bullets – one striking him in the stomach – but after more than three and a half hours of surgery he was finally released and “is expected to survive,” Deputy Prime Minister Tomáš Taraba told the BBC….
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