'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.
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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…
Inside his school, near the Trishuli River in Nepal, principal Rajendra Davanti was with about 900 students when a colleague arrived with an urgent warning. “The flood is coming, the flood is coming,” the school accountant told him, the principal recalled speaking to AFP. Without wasting any time, Davanti ... More www.ertnews.gr
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