Migrant farm hand 'dies of heat-induced heart attack'

Case comes two months after severed-arm labourer death

By: ansa.it

Aug 19 2024
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Migrant farm hand 'dies of hea

A 54-year-old Indian migrant farm hand is believed to have died of a heat-induced heart attack at Latina south of Rome on Friday after working for hours in temperatures nearing 40 degrees, police said Monday.
    Prosecutors have opened a probe to see whether all the necessary precautions for workers exposed to Italy's intense heat wave were taken by Dalvir Singh's employers.
    Dalvir Singh was on the farm company's books and had regular immigrants papers - unlike Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old Sikh labourer whose horrific death after being mangled by farm machinery turned the spotlight back on often brutal gangmastering in Italy two months ago.
    Satnam Singh bled out after being dumped outside his hut by employers afraid of getting into trouble with the law, his severed arm placed beside him in a fruit collecting box.
    His employer and alleged gangmaster has been placed under investigation on suspicion of manslaughter.