A 46 year old farmer passed away this Monday suffered heatstroke while working on a wine farm in the municipality of Cinco Casas (Ciudad Real) and becomes the second person to die from these causes during the current heat wave in Spain.

This farmer suffered a heat stroke around 3:00 pm this Monday and, feeling unwell, was taken by the people who were with him to the Argamasilla de Alba Medical Center, where he arrived unconscious, reportedly. EFE emergency service 112.

The same sources said the Medical Center staff called the emergency services headquarters to request a helicopter, which took him to Ciudad Real General Hospital, where he died shortly thereafter. EFE Health Service of Castile-La Mancha (Sescam).

Upon learning of the incident, the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development of Castile-La Mancha, Francisco Martínez Arroyo, conveyed his condolences to the family and friends of the victim on social networks.

In addition, he asked farmers and ranchers take extreme precautions if you are working in the sky open to this “terrible” heat wave, and also called for “maximum protection” for wage earners in the agricultural sector.

This Monday, the province of Ciudad Real was one of the areas of Spain that were in orange high temperature warningwith highs that were around 40 degrees.

This second farmer to die of heatstroke during the heat wave that hit Spain these days, since on Saturday, June 24, another 47-year-old farmer died in Aznalcollar (Seville) from a heat stroke that occurred while he was plowing a field.

A person who has suffered from previous pathologies Treated after fainting in the field and, having already lost consciousness, at about 13:00 he was transported by the children to a local clinic, where he was admitted with a temperature of about 41 degrees and died on the spot.