Teacher, six students pronounced dead after crash

DeadGeorgetown: Six students and a teacher of the Augsburg Primary School, have been pronounced dead today. Their bodies were retrieved from a partially submerged vehicle in the trench along the Burma Road, Mahaicony. They were returning from Mashramani celebrations at Novar. It is unclear how the car ended up in the trench or how long they were in the car before a passerby noticed the car in the trench and sounded an alarm.