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| Ex-councillor shot in Basque area | |
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| A former Socialist town councillor has been shot and killed in Spain's northern Basque region. | A former Socialist town councillor has been shot and killed in Spain's northern Basque region. |
| The attack in the town of Mondragon came just two days before a general election. Isaias Carrasco, 42, was shot outside his house and died in hospital. | |
| The Basque separatist group Eta has carried out similar attacks before. | |
| After the shooting the ruling Socialists and their main rivals, the conservative Popular Party, announced a halt to campaigning. | |
| Mr Carrasco was hit by several bullets. Witnesses said his wife and daughter were with him at the time, the Spanish news website El Pais reported. | |
| No group has said it carried out the attack. | |
| Mr Carrasco was a Socialist candidate in municipal elections in 2007. | |
| Spain's Socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, is seeking a second term in Sunday's election. |