The Prime Minister of Slovakia has been shot while leaving a government meeting.

Prime Minister Robert Fico was reportedly lifted from the ground by security guards in the town in Slovakia and loaded into a car before being driven away.

The government office could not immediately be reached for comment.

News agency TASR reporter that Fico was shot in front of a building in Handlova, where a government meeting had just been held. He has been taken to hospital and a man has reportedly been arrested.

Government officials at the scene in Handlova

A man has been detained in connection with the incident

Robert Fico has reportedly been shot (file pic)

A man is detained outside the government meeting

Robert Fico is bundled into a car after being shot