The Civil Guard has detained the head of the 50-year-old Nicaraguan day laborer , an irregular migrant in Spain, who was abandoned this Saturday in a health center in Lorca. He was taken out of a van with a severe heat stroke from which he later died, as reported by the Judicial Police of that body.

The arrested is a 42-year-old Ecuadorian who faces an accusation as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against the rights of workers for being in charge of this temporary worker when he worked on a farm in the hamlet of El Esparragal, in Puerto Lumbreras, bordering town with Lorca, in the Community of Murcia.

The 112 reported this Saturday that he received from the Lorca-Sutullena health center an emergency request for a medical ambulance with better means to attend to a man in abandoned and unaccompanied work clothes in very poor condition around 3:30 p.m. those facilities- The victim was unconscious and died at the hands of the toilets arrived in the specialized vehicle.

The region where the events occurred was in orange alert due to extreme maximum temperatures of 12 to 21 hours, temperatures that reached 44.4 degrees Celsius in the Larquina district of Zarcilla de Ramos.

CCOO has reacted with a statement that this new fatal accident reveals non-compliance with labor regulations and risk prevention plans at work. It urges to combat the increase in claims reported by the union for the lack of means and inspections of companies.

"We have been denouncing publicly and before the Labor Inspection of the ministry of the branch the breaches of the companies, that do not provide fresh water to drink to their staff or dining rooms where they can protect themselves from inclement weather and that even breach the intensive day, with the aggravating to be warned of the high temperatures that would occur these days, "the statement said.

The union reiterates that exposure to extreme environmental temperatures represents a well-known danger to human health, the severity of which ranges from discomfort and fatigue to heat stroke, which in this case has cost the person affected their lives.

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