Four people died in Italy's heat wave Wednesday. They were two farmers in the Lodi and Piacenza areas, a homeless person in Naples, and a man at the cemetery in Garlasco near Pavia in Lombardy. (ANSA)

A 61-year-old man died of suspected heat stroke while working his vineyard in the province of Piacenza on Wednesday, the first Italian fatality from the heat wave that is baking…

Four people died in Italy's heat wave Wednesday. They were two farmers in the Lodi and Piacenza areas, a homeless person in Naples, and a man at the cemetery in Garlasco near…

Five people have died in Italy as 17 cities were placed under the highest-level heat alert for Thursday as the country roasts in the grip of a killer heatwave