AN Italian teacher who handed out salami sandwiches to students sitting an exam has been disciplined for hiding the answers between the slices of bread.

Mr Ettore Szokoll (30) was suspended as an examination supervisor at the Fratelli Calvi high school in Bergamo, northern Italy for two months on Monday, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

It said Szokoll, a law teacher, slipped out of the room where his students were sitting an electronics test on June 27, got a friend to work out the answers, photocopied them and struck a deal with a barman to slip them into 15 salami sandwiches.

Szokoll was not available for comment.