Afghan football player dies in plane crash trying to escape – Sports – Sports

Zaki Anwari, A young footballer who played in the lower categories of the Afghanistan national team, suffered a fatal fall after trying to travel clinging to an American plane taking off from Acceptance, Reported this Thursday the General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of the country.

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“Anwari, like thousands of young Afghans, wanted to leave the country, but fell off a US plane and died,” the agency said in a statement posted on Facebook.

Thousands of Afghans flocked to the airport this week to emigrate following the Taliban offensive that culminated in the seizure of power after the president’s flight. Ashraf Ghani.

In a poignant video filmed Monday from the runway, hundreds of people are seen running alongside a plane from the United States Air Force which is about to take off, with several people trying to hold on to the aircraft. Other sequences appear to show two people suffering a fatal crash from a C-17 aircraft after takeoff.

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Human remains were later found on the landing gear, the U.S. military confirmed, adding that it is investigating any deaths linked to the C-17 takeoff.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, he is criticized in his country and internationally for the way his country’s troops withdrew from Afghanistan, and especially because his administration was apparently unprepared for the rapid assault on Taliban power.

Memories of the brutal regime imposed by the latter in the 1990s, during which music and television were banned, there were stonings and women were confined to their homes, sowed panic among the population.

AFP

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