{
  "id": 4761611,
  "title": "Nepal floods: meet the principal whose quick thinking saved 900 students",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/nepal-floods-meet-the-principal-whose-quick-thinking-saved-900",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T01:26:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3365908/nepal-floods-meet-principal-whose-quick-thinking-saved-900-students"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when a colleague rushed in with a warning: floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s Trishuli Valley, tearing apart homes, bridges and entire villages. Then a teacher received another warning by phone. Moments later, a parent arrived to take her child home. The danger had not yet been confirmed, but Dawadi, the principal, had little time to act. He rang the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}