http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3507186.eceEarlier today, a former town councillor from the Basque town of Mondragon, Isaias Carrasco (43), has been mortally shot by a presumed terrorist, in the style of terrorist band ETA.
Isaias Carrasco had just boarded his car when a tall, muscular man diguised with a beard has shot him five times, hitting his arms, neck and head. Carrasco has been able to step down from his car, mortally wounded, and has collapsed to the ground a few meters apart from the car. The shooter has fled in a car driven by a second criminal. Isaias Carrasco has been taken inmediately to Mondragon's hospital, and has died after several heart failures form which he has been unable to recover.
Carrasco's wife and older daughter (20) had rushed out their home afteer listening to the shots, and have met Carrasco laying on the ground, and tried to assist him. Carrasco was married and had three children, two girls aged 20 and 17 and a young boy aged 4.
Carrasco had been town councilor at Mondragon's city council until may 2007, when he resigned due to the pressure of terrorist threats on him and his fellow councillors. He had resigned to his bodyguard escort on september 2007, trusting he would be safe after leaving active politics. He was a member of the PSE (
Partido Socialista de Euskadi, Euskadi's Socialist Party), the Basque branch of PSOE.
Isaias Carrasco has been the fifth victim in president Zapatero's term, and the first one that has been purposely targetted (two victims were unintended victims to an attack, and the other two were murdered after terrorists accidentally met them and identified them as policemen).
