In Nepal's Dhading district, the line between survival and loss was drawn by something as ordinary as a lunch break and the instincts of teachers who recognized danger before it arrived. Most children at a local school escaped the rising floodwaters not through grand design, but through the quiet mercy of timing — a reminder that catastrophe and deliverance often share the same moment. Their survival is a small light within a vast darkness: across Nepal, 788 people have died, thousands more are missing, and nearly 19,000 children have lost their schools to floods that continue to reshape the l
Lunch break luck: Nepal schoolchildren escape catastrophic floods
At least 788 people confirmed dead and 2,502 missing in Nepal; 16 deaths and 546 missing reported in China; hundreds of foreigners missing including pilgrims and workers.