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School director evacuated 900 children minutes before floods in Nepal hit classrooms
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School director evacuated 900 children minutes before floods in Nepal hit classrooms

From El Deber · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A school director evacuated 900 children in Nepal minutes before floodwaters hit the classrooms.
  • A student said teachers initially did not know what had happened, then informed pupils about the flood and told them to go home.

A school director evacuated 900 children in Nepal just minutes before floodwaters hit the classrooms.

One student said the children had been studying when the flooding arrived. The teachers had gathered in one place and initially did not know what had happened.

“Five minutes later, the teachers came, told us about the flood and asked us to go home,” the student said.

Just before the flood arrived, we were in class studying. The teachers had gathered in one place and at first had no idea what had happened. Five minutes later, the teachers came, told us about the flood and asked us to go home.

— Unnamed studentThe student described how teachers informed pupils about the flood and ordered them to leave the school.
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Originally published by El Deber in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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