Rajendra Dadabi, 47, the headmaster of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School, received a call from a friend in Betrawati, eight kilometers upstream: The water was coming with tremendous force.
There were already 900 students at the school, and another 700 were on their way. There was no time to hesitate.
Within minutes, he led the 1,643 students to higher ground and gathered them under a Bodhi tree, while the three-story building disappeared beneath the water.
A glacial collapse near the Tibetan border triggered a flood of ice, debris, and mud that swept away entire villages in the Nuwakot district. Hydrology and Oceanography
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