Sutay Darboe, 42, from Senegal is pictured in a field of tomato plants, near Foggia, Italy August 7, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
FOGGIA, Italy (Reuters) - Smears of blood and oil mark the spot on the road where a van full of migrant farm labourers slammed into an oncoming truck and somersaulted across the tarmac on Aug. 6, killing 12 of the men packed inside.
Just 48 hours earlier, a near identical crash on a neighbouring road killed four other African workers as they too returned home from a gruelling day harvesting tomatoes in this sun-roasted corner of southern Italy.
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