'They were old enough to run': How Nepal school principal's swift decision saved 900 lives

[Editor's Note: Follow Khaleej Times' live coverage of the Nepal-Tibet floods and the ongoing rescue efforts.]Wednesday seemed like any other morning for Rajendra Dawadi, the principal of a school in Nepal.“Everything was going normally,” he said.That changed around 9.10am, when Dawadi was teaching a class at the Tribhuvan Trishuli School in Nuwakot, a district just north of Kathmandu, the country’s capital. A staff member burst into the classroom, shouting that a major flood was headed their wa...

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