Seven dead

An Augsburg Primary School teacher and six students were discovered dead in a car that was capsized in a trench along the Burma Road, at Mahaicony, where they are believed to have all drowned yesterday afternoon.

Dead are Shaundel Duke, who was driving the vehicle, and 10-year-old Asiyah Abel, her eight-year-old brother, Joel Justin Abel, their seven-year-old cousin Rayden Abel, 10-year-old Atesha Woolford, her six-year-old sister, Azidia Fraser, and their friend, seven-year-old Martina Persaud, who were returning together from a Mashramani activity.

Although it is still unclear how the car ended up in the trench, police said it is suspected that Duke lost control of the