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Dead severed-arm labourer's wife has bad turn

Satnam Singh death turns spotlight on gangmastering

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(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 20 - The wife of an Indian farm labourer who was dumped outside his home and left to die after an industrial accident with his severed arm placed on a vegetable picking box on Thursday had a bad turn and had to be treated for shock by an ambulance at Latina south of Rome.
    Satnam Singh's employer Antonello Lovato, who abandoned him without medical care, is set to face charges of aggravated manslaughter.
    The incident has returned the spotlight on gangmastering and slave-like conditions endured by migrant farm workers in much of Italy, especially the south.
    Singh, 31, is one of thousands of largely Sikh Indians employed by 'agro mafias' in and around Latina, a new town founded by Mussolini in 1932 after the Fascist dictator reclaimed the Pontine Marshes.
    Singh's wife was said to be finding it hard to accept the death of her husband, who lost his arm when it was trapped in a plastic fruit wrapping machine. (ANSA).
   

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