UPDATED: Seven killed in accident at Burma, Mahaicony
Look Picture of Kids in their Mash Costume
in the Rice Field after being pulled out.
A teacher and six students of a school at Mahaicony on Friday were believed dead after the vehicle they were travelling in plunged into a canal at Burma main road, police said.
Investigators were told that about 3:30 PM, the bodies of a school teacher and six students of the Husburg Primary School, Mahaicony, were found in a motor vehicle that had turned turtle in the canal along the Burma Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.
It is suspected that the teacher, Shondell Duke,
had lost control of the vehicle
as they were returning home from a school Mash event.
The children who lost their lives in the incident are
Martina Persaud, 7 years;
Asia Abel, 10 years;
Azikia Fraser, 6 years;
Adeshe Woolford, 9 years;
Justin Abel, 8 years; and
Rayden Abel, 7 years,
all of Mahaicony.
They were pronounced dead on arrival at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital.
