Indian farm worker dumped with severed arm dies in Italy

ROME: An Indian farm labourer working in Italy died on Wednesday after being left by the road following an accident that severed his arm, a minister said, condemning an “act of barbarity”.

Satnam Singh was injured on Monday while working on a farm in Latina, a rural area south of Rome that is home to tens of thousands of Indian migrant workers.

“The Indian agricultural worker who suffered a serious accident in the countryside of Latina and was abandoned in very serious conditions... has died,” Labour Minister Marina Calderone told parliament.

“It was a true act of barbarity,” she said, adding that authorities were investigating, and expressing hope that those who were responsible would be punished.

Singh, who was 30 or 31 and working without legal papers, was cutting hay when his arm was sliced off by a machine, according to the Flai CGIL trade union.