Burma grapples with loss, mystery after deadly road mishap

Shaundel Duke

As questions persist over the cause of the fatal mishap at Burma, Mahaicony that claimed seven lives, the mother of two of the six Augsburg students who died on Friday afternoon said she did not want to send them on the trip but had relented at the urging of their grandmother and teacher.

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, was transporting 10-year-old Asiyah Abel, her eight-year-old brother, Joel Justin Abel,