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School principal evacuates 900 students just before devastating Nepal floods: “Not a second to lose”

From VRT NWS · () Dutch

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

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  • Nepalese school principal Rajendra Dawadi evacuated around 900 students to higher ground shortly before a huge torrent of water and mud inundated the school.
  • Dawadi told the BBC that the decision came 10 minutes before the flooding and that a later evacuation could have cost lives.

Rajendra Dawadi had only minutes to move around 900 students to higher ground as a devastating flood approached his school in Nepal.

Ten minutes after the evacuation, a huge torrent of water and mud inundated the school. Dawadi told the BBC: “If we had decided 10 minutes later, we would not be speaking to you today.”

If we had decided 10 minutes later, we would not be speaking to you today.

— Rajendra Dawadi, school principalDawadi described how narrowly the evacuation of around 900 students preceded the flooding of the school.
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. 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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