Raipur. The number of tea drinkers in the world is very high. Although drinking too much tea is not considered good for health, this habit of tea saved the lives of five friends from Chhattisgarh from the terrible floods of Nepal! If Narayan Sen, Prem Singh Jagat, Dinesh Ojha, Dinesh Singh Thakur and Yatendra Prakash, residents of Mana Camp, had not stopped to drink tea on August 26, they too could have lost their lives in the flood in Bhotekoshi.
VIDEO | Raipur: Five travelers return safely from Nepal floods, say a tea break may have saved their lives.
“…We were traveling around 50 kilometers from Kathmandu, behind the Pashupatinath Temple, and were also taking short breaks along the way. Around 10 am, we decided to… pic.twitter.com/R0LiyFVMTA
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The age of these five is 50 to 60 years. He told news agency PTI that after the disaster in Nepal, he stayed at a high place for two days and saw the horrific form of Trishuli river. All five returned to their homes on Saturday. Narayan Sen's salon. He said he was lucky to have stopped to drink tea during the floods in Nepal. If we had left 10-15 minutes earlier, we would have been stuck. Narayan said that they all started from Raipur on August 21 and reached Nepal the next day and planned to visit Pashupatinath Temple, Manokamna Temple and other places by renting a car there.
According to Narayan Sen, between 9.30 and 10 am on August 26, he had stopped to drink tea at a place in Malekhu town of Dhading district. There they came to know that a bridge had been washed away in the flood. The hotel where the five friends were having tea was owned by an Indian and he not only helped them but also provided them food. He told that cars, dead bodies and other things were flowing in the Trishuli river. This scared them. After this, spent the night at a high place in Malekhu. Dinesh Singh Thakur is a head constable in the police. He told that when the flood came, they were about 50 kilometers away from the Pashupatinath temple. According to Dinesh, while drinking tea he noticed that people were restless. Then information was received about the destruction of many villages and other things. He said that he kept chanting the name of Lord Shiva and it was he who protected him. Dinesh Ojha said that what he saw, he would not be able to forget it for the rest of his life.