Two people are now confirmed dead after eating broccoli and sausage sandwiches from an Italian food truck.

45-year-old Tamara D’Acunto is confirmed to have died after undergoing treatment in intensive care for botulism from lunch.

Musician Luigi Di Sarno, 52, also died after buying the sandwich from a kiosk in Diamante, Calabria, in southern Italy.

More than 17 people are in hospital, prompting the Public Prosecutor’s Office to seize the jars of broccoli from the business.

Cases of the rare and life-threatening disease were found in other Italian regions. What is botulism?

It came as Roberta Pitzalis, 38, died from complications after eating a guacamole from a stand at a gastronomic festival in Cagliari, Sardinia.

According to La Repubblica, her condition had appeared to stabilise be

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