Burma teacher and students drowned

This composite photo shows the children on Friday morning before they left for Calcutta, Mahaicony. Standing from left are Asiyah Abel and Azaliah Fraser, six, while standing from right are Atesha Woolford and Martina Persaud. Kneeling in front row are Joel Justin Abel (right) and Rayden Abel.

Autopsies performed yesterday on the remains of the Mahaicony teacher and her six students, whose lifeless bodies were pulled from a car in a canal last Friday, revealed that they all drowned.

Teacher Shaundel Duke, 41, and six of her students, who were all residents of Burma, Mahaicony, were found in a vehicle that was overturned in a trench and they were all subsequently pronounced dead on arrival at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital. Duke, who was driving the vehicle,