The death toll from a fire last week at a Sicilian holiday farm has risen to four after another victim in the alleged arson case died in hospital from his injuries.
Giuseppe Bonpensiero, the farm's cook, died in hospital in Catania on Sunday night.
Bonpensiero's brother Vincenzo said he hoped those responsible for the blaze at the farm near Patti on the northern coast of Sicily would be tried and jailed.
"I'm only asking that justice be done and that those responsible are found. It's difficult to imagine the inhumanity of a person reduced to a pile of burnt flesh," he said.
The fire killed three other people and left 17 injured, several of them seriously.
Two shepherds are being held in connection with the case.
Their car was seen near the spot where the fire broke out and was later found by investigators hidden away, with several boxes of matches inside.
Both men have a criminal record for a range of crimes including attempted murder.
Sicily, along with other areas of central and southern Italy, has been hit by a fire emergency over the past two months which has claimed at least 15 lives and destroyed thousands of hectares of forest, woodland and coastal brush as well as dozens of properties.
The scale of the emergency prompted Defence Minister Arturo Parisi to send in the army last week.
On Monday, firefighters were batting major blazes in several regions including Campania around Naples, Lazio around Rome and Calabria on the foot of Italy.
Arsonists have been blamed for most of the fires and Premier Romano Prodi has called for "the greatest severity" in punishing "such unthinkable crimes".
Suspicion usually focuses on farmers seeking to clear space for agricultural purposes or construction speculators hoping to win permits to build on protected land.
It is also sometimes claimed that firefighters themselves and seasonal workers with the Forestry Corps set fire to woods in the hope of creating new jobs, either battling the flames or working in reforestation programmes.
MP Ermete Realacci, the head of the House Environmental Committee, urged parliament on Monday to tackle the issue as soon as it resumed work after the summer recess.
"Parliament must deal with this immediately and try to understand what has gone wrong this tragic summer. The laws have to be revised and tougher penalties introduced. We also have to see how effectively regional governments cope with fighting the fires," Realacci said.
