1,643 Children, One Warning: How a Nepal Teacher Pulled Off a Heroic Rescue
Dawadi’s quick warning sent children to higher ground before floodwaters destroyed the school, and two employees died after returning to the riverbank.
- On Wednesday, August 26, 2026, Nepali principal Rajendra Dawadi evacuated 1,643 children from Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in the Trishuli Valley minutes before flash floods destroyed the building.
- Catastrophic flooding stemmed from a massive collapse of ice and rock from Langtang Lirung peak near the Nepal-Tibet border, sending debris around 1,200 metres into the Lhende Khola river.
- Dawadi sounded the school bell at 9:20 am to initiate the evacuation, though two school employees—janitor Sultan Lama and social history teacher Santos Pariyar—died in the aftermath.
- Locals have hailed Dawadi as a hero for his quick action, as the children reached higher ground and took shelter beneath a bodhi tree after the school was destroyed.
- The tragedy has revived memories of Nepal's vulnerability to mountain disasters, including the 2015 earthquake that killed 8,962 people across South Asia; at least 734 people have died in Nepal currently, with thousands missing.
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A few minutes later their school had been swept away by the waters.
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