Head teacher evacuated 900 children minutes before Nepal floods hit school
The principal said warnings from four people gave him minutes to clear the school before floodwaters destroyed the building.
- Rajendra Dadabi, a 47-year-old teacher in Nepal, saved 1,643 children by quickly evacuating them during a flash flood caused by a glacier collapse in the Trishuli valley.
- The flash flood destroyed villages, buildings, and bridges, killing over 700 people and leaving thousands missing in Nepal and Tibet.
- Dadabi alerted all school bus drivers to turn back except one bus which crossed a bridge just before it collapsed, and led the children uphill to safety under a bodhi tree.
- Two staff members, including social history teacher Santos Pariyar and janitor Sultan Lama, died after returning to flood-affected areas.
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Nepalese school principal Rajendra Dawadi suddenly received four phone calls last Wednesday shortly after 9:00 AM: he was told that a massive mudslide was heading his way. He had to move to a safe area as quickly as possible along with his students. He didn't hesitate for a moment, he tells the BBC. The urgency of the situation quickly became clear to him, partly because a parent stormed into the school almost simultaneously. "A major flood is c…
In Nepal, the director of a Nuwakot district high school ordered the evacuation of his 1,643 students on Wednesday 26 August, a few minutes before the devastating flood swallowed up the school.
Nepal Principal's 900 Rescued Students Are a Rare Bright Spot Amid Nearly 1,000 Flood Deaths
A Nepalese headteacher had roughly 13 minutes to act after a staff member rushed into his classroom warning that floodwaters were approaching. His decision to evacuate 900 students saved every one of them, even as the school itself was swept away in a disaster that has now killed nearly 1,000 people. Rajendra Dawadi, principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot, made a swift call that has emerged as one of the only pieces of good …
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