In Nepal, a headteacher saved 900 students from a deadly flash flood, as the death toll from the disaster reached 781 and thousands remain missing. This was reported by infohub.kz.

Rajendra Dawadi, the headteacher of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot district, decided to halt classes and move students to higher ground after receiving warnings about the flooding. He received four warnings within minutes, including one from Betrawati, a town directly upstream.

Dawadi said he decided to act immediately. "I decided I shouldn't delay any more," he told the BBC. "Even if the flood was not coming, it was just a matter of a single day's classes." During the evacuation, he saw a hostel building about 100 meters from the river being engulfed by the torrent.

"If we had made the decision 10 minutes later, all of us, including the students and me, would not be able to speak to you today," he said. One student, 16-year-old Yunisha, told reporters: "I, along with my friends, survived by just 10 seconds." She described the children running up a muddy path to escape as water and debris inundated the town. "Within no time, the bazaar was swept away in front of my eyes," she said. She was reunited with her family three days later.

At least 69 schools have been destroyed or damaged by the floods, affecting nearly 19,000 children, according to the charity Save the Children. In Dhading, one of the areas worst hit, a group of schoolchildren survived when they left their classroom for a lunch break. Others escaped when teachers told them to quickly evacuate just before the waters came crashing in.

The mother of one child told the Associated Press that teachers had warned students: "There is a flood and you should leave bags and tiffins. That's how they managed to survive." More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far. The country said on Sunday 2,502 people, including 592 foreigners, were out of contact. The official death toll has reached 781.

The disaster, which struck the Nepal-Tibet border region of the Himalayas on Wednesday morning, was caused by a glacial collapse that sent a wall of water and debris cascading downstream, the US Geological Survey said. Nepal's foreign minister has called for a global response to the climate crisis, saying the Nepali people had disproportionately become "major victims of climate change" despite having contributed a fraction of the planet's fossil fuel emissions.