Two arrested after four migrant farm workers killed in Italy minivan fire

Police successful Italy person arrested 2 Pakistani nationals for the alleged execution of 4 migrant workers recovered dormant successful a burnt-out minivan, according to Italian media reports.

The conveyance was recovered astatine a petrol presumption adjacent a colony successful a immense farming country successful the confederate Calabria region.

CCTV images showed 2 radical blocking the van's doors from the extracurricular and throwing liquid wrong to commencement a fire.

Reports said determination had been 14 cases of arson involving cars and minivans carrying Pakistanis successful caller months successful the area, wherever determination are tensions betwixt migrants implicit the part of workplace enactment and accommodation.

Firefighters were called to the country of a burning van astatine astir 13:00 section clip (11:00 GMT) connected Tuesday.

After extinguishing the flames they made the grisly find of 4 charred bodies inside.

The 2 suspects were aboriginal arrested based connected grounds from the CCTV footage, the reports said.

Italian media said a 5th antheral from Afghanistan had survived the attack. He was quoted arsenic saying that the dormant included 3 Afghans and a Pakistani, each moving successful agriculture.

The subsister told Italian media that helium had escaped the burning car by breaking 1 of the windows.

He said that a quality had arisen aft the 2 arrested men had demanded proscription wealth from those successful the car, which they had refused to pay. He besides alleged that the workers had not been paid for their enactment successful the region's strawberry fields, though they had been fixed nutrient and lodging.

The killings person shocked Italy. Calabria's determination president, Roberto Occhiuto, said quality of the onslaught "shakes religion successful humanity", adding that it was "inhuman".

The CGIL national meantime was quoted by Italy's Ansa quality bureau arsenic demanding enactment to "combat the abominations of regular beingness endured by workers, often migrants, successful our countryside".