A PANICKED ESCAPE
Over 900 of the school’s roughly 1,600 students were on campus at the time of the first warning.
Dawadi said he instructed buses that were headed to the school with more students to head to safer ground, and quickly began to evacuate the premises. As chaos spread, at least one student fainted, Dawadi said.
Parents, teachers, and students arrived with motorbikes to pick up their children. Others were brought to safety in buses or ran to higher ground.
By the time the last bus crossed a nearby bridge across the river, an estimated 14 minutes later, a wall of water was making its way through the town of 60,000.
As “our bus crossed…
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