PM Robert Fico's Facebook account posts the following update: "[Fico] was shot multiple times and is currently in a life-threatening condition. At this moment, he is being transported by helicopter to Banská Bystrica, because it would take too long to get to Bratislava due to the necessity of an acute intervention. The next few hours will decide."

• Wires reporting comments from a hospital spox saying that Fico was concious when taken to Handlova hospital, where he was treated for gunshot wounds and its vital functions were stabilised.