The bodies of three schoolboys missing since last week were found buried in a sandpit in Aishalton, Deep South Rupununi late Saturday.

Dead are Mark Thompson and two other students identified only as Adrian and Chad, all first form students of the Aishalton Secondary School. Two were 11 years and the other was 12 years old. The tragedy shook the remote community in the sprawling savannah region and President Donald Ramotar has dispatched a team to the area to investigate. A pathologist is expected to be flown into the Region Nine community today, an official in the region said.

The police are investigating the matter. “Investigations so far revealed that the two eleven-year-olds and one twelve-year-old had left the dormitory of a school at Aishalton sometime on…..