Video footage shows the moment when a gunman opened fire on Robert Fico, Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister.

Mr Fico was speaking to supporters outside the House of Culture in the town of Handlova, 93 miles north-east of the capital Bratislava when four shots were fired, with one striking the prime minister, Slovakia’s state broadcaster reported.

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