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This principal in Nepal evacuated 900 students before flooding swept away their school
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Student Suvina Tamang, 14, said the school’s three-story building was swept away shortly after all the students had been evacuated. Charity group Save the Children said in a statement that at least 69 schools in northern Nepal have been completely destroyed, putting the education of nearly 19,000 students at risk.
One bus, packed with students, had already reached the school when Dawadi told the driver to turn back, he said. He rang the school bell and ordered his students and staff out of the building and toward higher ground.
“I immediately decided to stop... school and (get the children out),” he said. And I gave education at that school,” he said.
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- He rang the school bell and ordered his students and staff out of the building and toward higher ground.
- “I immediately decided to stop ... school and (get the children out),” he said.
- One bus, packed with students, had already reached the school when Dawadi told the driver to turn back, he said.
- And I gave education at that school,” he said.
- Charity group Save the Children said in a statement that at least 69 schools in northern Nepal have been completely destroyed, putting the education of nearly 19,000 students at risk.
- Student Suvina Tamang, 14, said the school’s three-story building was swept away shortly after all the students had been evacuated.
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- politicslink