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Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when a colleague rushed in with a warning: floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s Trishuli Valley, destroying homes, bridges and entire villages
Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when a colleague rushed in with a warning: floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s Trishuli Valley, destroying homes, bridges and entire villages. Another teacher soon received a warning by phone. Moments later, a parent arrived to take her child home. Although the danger had not yet been fully confirmed, Dawadi, the school principal, knew he had little time to act. He immediately rang the school bell and ordered students and staff to evacuate the building and move toward higher ground. “I immediately decided to stop school” and get the children out, Dawadi told The Associated Press. As he followed the students toward a nearby hill, the floodwaters rose rapidly behind them. From the safety of the hillside, Dawadi watched helplessly as the school where he had once been a student — and where he had spent years teaching — disappeared beneath a torrent of water, mud, boulders and debris. Two staff members were unable to escape and remain missing. A decision that saved hundreds of…
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