A PANICKED ESCAPE
Over 900 of the varsity’s roughly 1,600 college students had been on campus on the time of the primary warning.
Dawadi mentioned he instructed buses that had been headed to the varsity with extra college students to move to safer floor, and rapidly started to evacuate the premises. As chaos unfold, a minimum of one pupil fainted, Dawadi mentioned.
Mother and father, lecturers, and college students arrived with motorbikes to select up their kids. Others had been dropped at security in buses or ran to increased floor.
By the point the final bus crossed a close-by bridge throughout the river, an estimated 14 minutes later, a wall of water was making its method by the city of 60,000.
As “our bus crossed the brand new bridge, the outdated bridge collapsed,” Dawadi mentioned.
Headmaster Dawadi was as soon as a pupil on this faculty, lengthy earlier than he grew to become its headmaster, and he now desires authorities to rebuild the varsity in a protected location as quickly as doable.
‘ONLY GOD CAN DO THIS’
Headmaster Dawadi is being credited by many dad and mom for saving their kids. “He was like a God. He gave life to my daughter and to many different kids. Solely God can do that,” mentioned Man Maya Tamang, 50, who initially thought she had misplaced her daughter Sushmita.
For a lot of others in Bidur, the warnings got here too late. A minimum of one faculty staffer and the varsity accountant’s mom are lacking, Dawadi mentioned.
After warning the varsity, the accountant had rushed again to his dad and mom’ home to avoid wasting them. He managed to take his father uphill, Dawadi mentioned, however when he returned for his mom, the home had been washed away.
