On Friday Principal Saeed Ahmad’s quick order saved nearly 900 students in Swat minutes before flood water demolished the school.
It was exactly 9am when I had a last glance at the stream and sensed it was going to burst its banks due to continuing rains,” the school’s principal. Sir Saeed Ahmad ordered an immediate evacuation of nearly 900 enrolled students.
Within 15 minutes, the children and teachers had evacuated. Minutes later, torrent of water smashed into the school washing away half the building its boundary walls and the playground.