Italian Landowner Arrested After Indian Worker Dies In Farm Accident

Rome/Internet/Hyderabad, July 3 (Maxim News): Italian police have arrested the owner of the agriculture company who dumped a 31-year-old Indian worker on the road without medical assistance after his arm was severed by heavy farm machinery, causing his death, a tragic incident that shocked the country and its leadership.

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Satnam Singh was abandoned by his employer after a strawberry wrapping machine severed his arm in Lazio, near Rome, last month and died due to “copious bleeding”, the ANSA news agency reported. 

The Sikh casual farm laborer died in a hospital in Rome two days later after being airlifted there when he was eventually found.

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Police on Tuesday arrested the alleged gangmaster.  Antonello Lovato, on suspicion of causing Singh’s man slaughter death, the report said. 

Prosecutors said in a statement that the Sikh farmer, who died of a massive hemorrhage in a Rome hospital, “would in all likelihood have been saved if he had been promptly assisted.”

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“We were waiting for this news, we were angry,” the president of the Laxio Indian community, Gurmukh Singh, said. 

“The worst thing (Lovato) did was to leave him outside his home instead of taking him to hospital, ” he was quoted as saying.

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“An accident can happen, but not calling for medical assistance is unacceptable, he said.  (Maxim News) 

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