Head teacher evacuated 900 children minutes before Nepal floods hit school

The principal and Yunisha, who both live across the river from the school, were eventually airlifted back to their home village.Meanwhile parents were desperately trying to contact their children and relatives.Yunisha's mother, Sabina Kumari Shrestha, says she repeatedly tried to call both her daughter and husband, but neither could be reached.Her husband, Yubaraj Amatya, immediately headed towards the school."Soon after the flood news spread, I tried my daughter's number, but she was not reachable, then I was afraid," he said."Within a few minutes I rushed toward my daughter's school and Trishuli Bazar was all swept by the flood, then I thought my daughter was no more. I was so horrified, stopped my scooter, there was flooding but I could not think of returning without my daughter."For nearly an hour, he had no idea whether she was alive and kept calling her without success. Then the phone finally connected and Yunisha answered.