1,643 Children, One Warning: How a Nepal Teacher Pulled Off a Heroic Rescue
Dawadi’s quick warning sent children to higher ground before floodwaters destroyed the school, and two employees died after returning to the riverbank.
- On Wednesday, Nepali principal Rajendra Dawadi evacuated 1,643 children from Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in the Trishuli Valley minutes before flash floods destroyed the building.
- A massive collapse of ice and rock from Langtang Lirung peak near the Nepal-Tibet border triggered the catastrophic flooding, sending debris around 1,200 metres into the Lhende Khola river.
- Dawadi sounded the school bell at 9:20 am on Wednesday, initiating a chaotic evacuation; two school employees, janitor Sultan Lama and social history teacher Santos Pariyar, died during the disaster.
- Locals have hailed Dawadi as a hero for his quick action, as the children eventually reached higher ground and took shelter beneath a bodhi tree after the school was overwhelmed.
- The tragedy has revived memories of Nepal's vulnerability to mountain disasters, including the 2015 earthquake that killed 8,962 people across South Asia; at least 734 people have died in Nepal from the current flooding.
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The director of a Nepalese school devastated by floods claims that he decided to evacuate about 900 students to a safe place after receiving a series of phone calls that alerted to the risk of flooding in the region. Rajendra Dawadi, director of Tribhuvan Trishuli Middle School in Nuwakot, Nepal — with a total of just over 1,600 students — reports having received four warnings from different people within a few minutes. Among these warnings, the…
Nepal floods: Teacher rang the bell, 1,643 children escaped. Minutes later, school was swept away
A Nepal teacher’s quick action saved 1,643 children as flash floods swept away their school, while rescuers pull a five-year-old girl alive from the rubble.
A timely decision by a school principal in Nepal may have saved the lives of around 900 students just before devastating floods swept through the area. Rajendra Dawadi, principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli School in Nuwakot district, says he received four warning calls within minutes from different people alerting him to the danger of flooding. The situation became even more alarming when reports arrived that floodwaters had already engulfed the Betr…
As Nepal floodwaters surged, one principal rang the school bell and saved 1,643 children
A school principal in Nepal acted within minutes as a devastating flash flood tore through the Trishuli Valley. With thousands of lives at risk and the school in danger, his quick decision helped 1,643 children reach safety as the disaster unfolded.
They had a few minutes to decide whether to stay in the seemingly safe school or embark on the risky march.
Hero in Nepal: How an English Teacher Saved 1,643 Children From Certain Death in the Biblical Floods
The 47-year-old school principal and English teacher, Rajendra Dawadi, proved to be the guardian angel of hundreds of children in Nepal The post Hero in Nepal: How an English teacher saved 1,643 children from certain death in the biblical floods appeared first on in.gr.
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