2 get 14 yrs after worker dies in searing heat

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 24 - An 82-year-old Italian farmer and a 42-year-old Sudanese migrant seasonal worker 'broker' got 14 and a half years in jail each Thursday over the death from a heart attack brought on by heat exhaustion of a 47-year-old Sudanese day labourer who died while picking tomatoes in 40-degree temperatures in Puglia in July 2015.
    The farmer, Giuseppe Mariano, and the migrant transfer brotker, Mohamed Elsalih, were found guilty of culpable negligent homicide and reducing people into a state of slavery in the death of Mohammed Abdullah on July 20 that year.
    Both defendants were also barred from public office. (ANSA).