Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt that the country’s interior minister says was politically motivated. The 59-year-old left-wing nationalist politician was flown to hospital by helicopter after the bloody attack in the town of Handlová on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses reported on television that five shots were fired in front of the House of Culture in Handlová, some 192 kilometres north-east of the capital Bratislava. They said the attack occurred as Fico went outside to shake hands. One shot hit him in the chest. The local television s…