Karimnagar: During the recent earthquake in Nepal, Butham Sai, a 14-year-old orphan from Rama Krishnapauram Colony in Timmapur mandal, rescued five children by evacuating them from a toppling building in Kathmandu while everyone was trying to save themselves.
Sai saved the lives of three boys and two girls, all aged below four, for which he is being lauded by his friends and community members.
Sai had migrated to Nepal two years back with the help of his paternal uncle. He was accompanying and taking care of the children of his uncle and some relatives.
Around a hundred families from RK Colony live in rented houses in the Shinamangal area of Kathmandu.
On the day of the earthquake, Sai was watching TV along with the other children. “I realized it was a earthquake only when the TV set fell on the children. I then started shifting the children to the road,” said Sai.
“A flying piece of tin cut my left eyebrow, resulting in bleeding, when I was trying to rescue my uncle’s children, eight-month-old Venkata Sai and one-year-old Indu.”
The other children who Sai rescued were Ganesh (4), Anu (3) and Shivani (3), children of other residents of RK Colony.
