Principal who saved 900 students recalls Nepal’s devastating flood
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- Nepalese school principal Rajendra Dawadi recalls evacuating more than 900 students to safety during devastating floods.
- He later watched the school disappear beneath the floodwaters, while the floods killed more than 900 people and left nearly 5,000 missing.
Rajendra Dawadi, a school principal in Nepal, recalls evacuating more than 900 students to safety during devastating floods. He then watched his school disappear beneath the floodwaters.
The floods killed more than 900 people, while nearly 5,000 remained missing.
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