Only military flights operating at Afghan capital’s airport as locals desperately try to flee the country
Displaced Afghans arrive at a makeshift camp from the northern provinces desperately leaving their homes behind in Kabul.A South African contractor has described apocalyptic scenes at Kabul’s airport as panicking Afghan civilians scaled the airport walls and ran amok on the airfield.
Speaking under condition of anonymity, the contractor declined to say which company he worked for and only that he had previously worked in Iraq and Mali.Kabul has been watching anxiously as the country’s major cities fell almost without a fight during a rapid two-week offensive in the wake of the US decision to finally withdraw all its forces from the country.
His company had ordered its staff back to Kabul as the Taliban swept across the country and he and his colleagues were staying in a camp at the airport while waiting for a flight out. Taliban forces were acting as de facto guards at UN compounds in Kabul to stop civilians from getting in to the facilities, he added.“The Taliban have said they won’t hurt any of the expats and they want the extraction of the expats to be peaceful.
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