'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students

The Manila Times 9 h Philippines

NUWAKOT, Nepal — Rajendra Dawadi was inside his school near Nepal's Trishuli River with around 900 students last week when a colleague delivered an urgent warning. "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 cla

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