Saved by a lunch break: Nepal floods destroyed many schools, but students at this school survived

Saved by a lunch break: Nepal floods destroyed many schools, but students at this school survived — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/saved-by-a-lunch-break-nepal-floods-destroyed-many-schools-but-students-at-this-school-survivedContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Teacher saves hundreds of students from Nepal flash floodshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/saved-by-a-lunch-break-nepal-floods-destroyed-many-schools-but-students-at-this-school-survivedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/saved-by-a-lunch-break-nepal-floods-destroyed-many-schools-but-students-at-this-school-survived#u54062Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:00:15 +0000A teacher in Nepal evacuated approximately 1,600 schoolchildren minutes before flash floods inundated their school. While some reports specify 900 children were saved by a head teacher, others credit a teacher with saving 1,643 students after receiving a warning. In a separate incident, 370 children and teachers survived because a stranger ran past the school shouting for them to run from the water. Other students survived because they had left their classrooms for a lunch break during the catastrophic floods that hit on Wednesday.Why it mattersThe floods destroyed numerous schools across the