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.
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