Afghanistan: Taliban urge people to leave Kabul airport after 12 people killed there since Sunday

Those killed have died as a result of either gunshots or stampedes, Taliban and NATO officials said on Thursday.

Thursday 19 August 2021 08:27, UK

The Taliban have urged people to leave Kabul airport after 12 people were killed there since Sunday.

They died in and around the airport either as a result of gunshots or a stampede, Taliban and NATO officials said.

Thousands are still trying to flee Afghanistan via the capital's Hamid Karzai International Airport.

But the Taliban have warned people to leave and go back to their homes, with an official saying: "We don't want to hurt anyone at the airport."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXhItOaOJak
New footage shows crowds gathered at the airport at night, while shots are fired into the air

Scenes there have become increasingly desperate in recent days, with new footage showing a child being passed to a foreign soldier in the hope they might be able to escape.

Another clip, thought to have been filmed on Tuesday, captures shots being fired near large crowds and fighters kicking those trying to flee.

Foreign embassies have set up evacuation centres inside the airport compound, including the UK and US who have committed to airlifting thousands of their own nationals and eligible Afghans in the coming weeks.

Speaking to Sky News this morning, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that the Taliban are cooperating with the British by letting people through to be evacuated.

But he said the real challenge for embassy staff at the airport is "crowd issues" as hundreds battle for safety.

"It is very, very difficult for those soldiers dealing with some desperate, desperate people," he told Kay Burley.

In terms of numbers, he committed to "calling forward nearly 2,000 people" to board evacuation flights in the coming days.

Asked about footage of parents offering up their children to be rescued by Western soldiers, he said the armed forces cannot take youngsters without their families.

"We can't just take a minor on their own," he said.

Sky correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who is on the ground in Kabul, said crowds around the barbed wire fence to the airport were "absolute chaos" on Thursday morning.

He described "thousands upon thousands" of families with children trying to get to evacuation centres inside the compound, particularly via the US gate.

For the most part, Taliban fighters are not stopping people entering, he added, but thousands coming in "with no hope of getting on a flight", mean those who are eligible for asylum are not able to get through.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has committed to keeping US troops on the ground for as long as it takes to get every last American out.

Speaking to ABC News, he said: "If there's American citizens left, we're gonna stay till we get them all out."

Defending the decision to pull out troops ahead of the 20-year anniversary of 9/11, he said there was "no way" to do it "without chaos ensuing".

Meanwhile, the Taliban says it is celebrating Afghanistan Independence Day on Thursday by beating the US, who they refer to as "the arrogant power of the world".

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Picture 1) Thousands wait outside Kabul Airport trying to get out of Afghanistan

Picture 2) The airport compound is surrounded by barbed wire

Picture 3) People attempt to scale a wall into Kabul airport

Picture 4) People gather outside the airport compound trying to get in on Wednesday

Yesterday the UK Chief of Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said that the Taliban had changed and that they were cooperating with the UK's Armed Forces. These are reactions to that statement.

Video of people trying to get to Kabul Airport.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gukJA4j1M

Lord have mercy

Chai

I don't even know what to say

By now, if you are a Muslim but your brains are still intact. You should have know that a religion like Islam that encourages bloodshed is the broad road to HELL fire.
Summon the courage and come to Jesus Christ today. If not, the only place you will be getting virgins is in hell fire. Don't be afraid of what your friends or family will say or do. I know many Muslims who are now enjoying the freedom and true peace in Jesus Christ.
Pst Tunde Bakare was a Muslim scholar before he became Christian, someone like this can help you if you need help.

God bless you. My one cent!

Very pathetic scenes
I really wonder if the Mesut Õzil kinda Islam can't be emulated.
These other guys just crave for blood

Taliban should ask themselves why are people scared of them, their crime against humanity back in the 90s cannot be forgotten in a haste and if your fellow Muslim brothers are running away from you, then your goals of having a successful Muslim emirate is already defeated, only God knows when the infidels start kidnapping young girls from their parent and keeping them in a special room for their commanders to have sex with them as part of the agenda of successfully deflowering 72 virgins here on earth

Ok

This is interesting, these talibans sef care for its citizens

Sad

I de tell people steady to arm and protect ourselves. Na Buhari promised NEXTLEVEL with Boko Haram bdis. Na them them

Islamabad. These people are bent on ruin the world with this religion of piss. I wonder why people will still hold unto naive, primitive and uncivilised way of life in this 21st century.

G

This is serious

Afghanistan is going to witness lots of killings in the following days....

Our bandits and Boko Haram will be practicing along side with them...

I do not know why I have less pity for these people. All these STAN STAN countries, their wahala na top notch

Okay

Whatever works for them.

May Allah grant them the best!

It pays to be patient!

Omo, nawa o

Na airport be dat place? Na wa

Then they will say the religion is peaceful

Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen,Bandits, Taliban, Al qaeda, ISIS, Al-Shabaab etc belong to the same religion

Wherever they go its trouble

They will tell you that Jesus didnt die

Yet historians recorded the death of Jesus as this video shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A41Tm5FDKns


Proving that their religion is built on killing & lies

These Taliban that we see are more civilised. We pray that Afghans live in peace, they should unit their country for rapid development

That airport represents their hope of escape but a very dim one at that.

With the way this stuff is playing out look finishing. From twitter not restricting their PR On twitter and on how the western press are trying to sell them as good to the masses, is very fishing.. The dems and their media always trying so hard to destroy the world by installing terrorist to oversee the affair of a country. From how they remove gadaffi to cause unrest in syria and how they remove GEJ to installing buhari to this afganistan issue.