'The Flood Is Coming': How a Nepal Principal Saved 900 Students
A timely evacuation saved about 900 students as the flood destroyed Trishuli Bazaar Secondary School and killed seven people, officials said.
- Principal Rajendra Dawadi ordered an urgent evacuation of 900 students at Trishuli Bazaar Secondary School last week, saving their lives moments before a massive glacial flood swept the building into the Trishuli River.
- A massive glacial and rock collapse along the Nepal-China border unleashed a tsunami-like wall of water, ice, and debris that killed at least 1,362 people and left more than 5,500 missing across the two countries.
- Five students, a teacher, and a security staff member died in the flooding outside the school, leaving 47-year-old Dawadi describing himself as "a principal without a school" after losing the institution he once attended.
- Student Santoshi Dotel was in accounting class when the evacuation order came; she was reunited with her mother four days later after a helicopter rescue, describing the anguish of not knowing if her parents had survived.
- Save the Children reports at least 69 schools were destroyed or damaged, disrupting the education of nearly 19,000 children, as Dawadi noted the disaster was "far worse" than Nepal's 2015 earthquake.
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Rajendra Dawadi evacuated the students in time before seeing the school he was running in Trishuli Bazaar, disappearing under the waters of the flood. Despite this salutary decision, five students perished outside
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Rajendra Dhawadi ordered an evacuation when he heard the disaster warning – The school building collapsed from the rushing Trishuli River, but hundreds of children managed to escape
Sazal Shrestha received a phone call from upriver and had three minutes to warn her neighbors. More information: Between alive and dead, the bitter wait of relatives of missing people in Nepal in front of a wall with their photos
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'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students
"My accountant came to the school and said, 'The flood is coming, the flood is coming'," the school principal told AFP in a recent interview. Dawadi quickly ordered an evacuation, and teachers hurried hundreds of students from classrooms to higher ground. Minutes later, the 47-year-old watched the Trishuli Bazaar Secondary School he had run for years collapse into a raging torrent. "If the information was wrong, we would lose a day of schooling…
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