Anup OjhaAFP·6 Sep, 2026 03:12 AM3 mins to readRajendra Dawadi, 47, principal of the Trishuli Bazaar secondary school poses for a photograph in a garden next to his home in Nepal's Nuwakot District on September 4. Photo / Lucie Godeau, AFPRajendra Dawadi was inside his school near Nepal’s Trishuli River with around 900 students last week when a colleague delivered an urgent warning. “My accountant came to the school and said, ‘The flood is coming, the flood is coming’,” the school principal told AFP.
Dawadi quickly ordered an evacuation,
