Around 1,250 premature deaths
each year in Italy are linked to diesel cars emitted higher
levels of pollution than carmakers claimed, according to a
report released on Monday.
The report by the Austria-based International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden comes after a
big scandal on emissions cheating that first hit Volkswagen in
2015.
It said the excess emissions cause around 4,500 premature
deaths in Europe each year.
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