Charges dropped agst man who killed two women with tractor

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 27 - Italian prosecutors have dropped charges against a 28-year-old Italian tractor driver who ran over and killed two young Moroccan women who were sleeping off a night of drinking and drug taking in a cornfield near Milan on July 3, judicial sources said Monday.
    The prosecutors said it would have been impossible for the man to have seen the women from his cabin since the corn, on which he was spraying insecticide, was over two metres high.
    The accident happened at San Giuliano Milanese.
    The friends of the young women who allegedly ran off without calling for help may be charged with failing to assist people in an emergency.
    The victims have been named as Hanan Nekhla, 32, and Sara El Jaafari, 28, whose lifeless bodies were found on a Saturday night in the thickly cultivated maize field.
    They are believed to have been sleeping, or perhaps knocked out by the powerful insecticide, when a threshing machine pulled by the tractor allegedly hit them.
    The two women were homeless and sleeping with friends or family, sources said.
    Empty beer bottles and tin foil perhaps used to consume drugs were found beside their bodies.
    The farm worker, who has not been named, has been placed under investigation for manslaughter as a formality, police said.
    The man told police he felt nothing of any impact as he was driving his tractor.
    A cousin of the young women said they had been with two male friends who "could have helped them". (ANSA).