Mezzanone, Italy, June 26, 2026 (AFP) - Farm workers wilt in sweltering Italian shanty town

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2026-06-26

From sun-scorched fields of crops to the corrugated iron shacks of a sprawling shanty town, there is no escaping the heat for migrant labourers in southern Italy's Puglia region. The smell of roasting goat and burning rubbish fill the air in the settlement, which spreads out between the disused runways of a former military airfield. After hours of back-breaking work in the middle of a heatwave gripping Europe, the fruit pickers cycle back to Borg......

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