A look at high-profile political assassinations and attempts this century

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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election. The attack calls to mind other notable political assassinations and attempts in recent years.

FILE - Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks during a press conference with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday May 15, 2024 and taken to hospital. Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico , centre, speaks with people before the cabinet’s away-from-home session in the town of Handlova, Slovakia, Wednesday, May, 15, 2024.

— July 15, 2016: A group of Turkish soldiers using tanks, warplanes and helicopters launch a plot to overthrow Turkey’s president and government. The coup attempt fails. One year later, 40 people are sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on charges that include— Feb. 6, 2013: Tunisian left-wing opposition leader Chokri Belaid is fatally shot outside his Tunis home.

— December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister in a Muslim-majority country as well as Pakistan’s second nationally elected prime minister, is shot at and then fatally attackedon a seaside boulevard in Beirut. Another 21 people die and 226 are wounded in the attack, which is seen by many in Lebanon as the work of neighboring Syria.

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