Sad Mother’s Day for moms of Burma accident victims

Asiyah Abel

While many mothers would be celebrating today as they are honoured on Mother’s Day three mothers would be crying tears of grief as they remember their six children who died in a tragic accident recently.

For the parents of 10-year-old Asiyah Abel, her eight year-old brother, Joel Abel, their seven-year-old cousin Rayden Abel, nine-year-old Atesha Woolford, her six-year-old sister Azaliah and their friend, seven-year-old Martina Persaud Mother’s Day will never be the same.

The six children died on February 20, when the car they were in, driven by their teacher Shaundel Duke, who also died, ended up in a trench on Burma Road, Mahaicony. They were all students of the Augsburg Primary School and were returning from Calcutta, Mahaicony where they