“Taking [the warning] lightly could mean the loss of hundreds of lives,” recalled Rajendra Dawadi, the principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School
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After receiving a warning that a flash flood was approaching the school he oversees in Nepal, Rajendra Dawadi immediately evacuated 900 students and ordered them to higher ground
The floodwaters destroyed the school where Dawadi was once a student
“I am extremely emotional to see the school completely swept away,” he later said
Amid the devastation of last week’s flash flooding in Nepal that has so far claimed hundreds of lives, a story of heroism and survival has emerged involving a…
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