Newspaper Exec Killed in Basque Area
An attacker shot a Spanish newspaper executive seven times Thursday in the first killing blamed on the Basque group ETA since voters overwhelmingly rejected separatist bloodshed in a recent election.
Santiago Oleaga, 52, was shot three times in the head, three times in the back and once in the neck in a hospital parking lot in the northern coastal city of San Sebastian, police said. He did not have police protection.
Oleaga was chief financial officer of the newspaper El Diario Vasco, owned by Grupo Correo, a news conglomerate based in the Basque Country that has been outspoken in criticizing ETA.
No one took responsibility for the shooting, but authorities blamed ETA.
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