U.S. and Taliban forces are struggling to control entry to Kabul airport. Soldiers have placed a wire around the air terminal to control the masses desperately seeking to flee the Taliban.
Disturbing images of Afghan women throwing their babies through a barbed wire at Kabul airport have caused a stir.
Images published by various international media show thousands of Afghans stationed between Taliban checkpoints and the American-installed yarn around the airport, the only way to eventually flee the country.
In a desperate attempt to flee an Asian country where the Taliban have regained power, several women throw their children through barbed wire to hand them over to the U.S. military who asked them to take them out of the country.
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Disturbing images show the chaos at Kabul airport where civilians sought to hand over their children to the military to take them out of the country. Illustrative and non-commercial video / Twitter / https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1428307000547500033
Faced with these poignant scenes, British Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace called on civilians not to hand over their children to soldiers as they would not take unaccompanied minors out of the country, mundohispanico.com reported.
As US and Taliban forces strive to control entry to the airport, thousands of people are also concentrating on embassies in the face of rumors of possible safe-conduct to access the airport.
This Thursday, thousands are overwhelmed by despair in the embassy area, the AFP news agency reported, as Washington on Wednesday accused the Taliban of not keeping its promises and preventing the Afghans from leaving.
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“We have seen reports that the Taliban, contrary to what they stated in public and committed to our government, are preventing Afghans who want to leave the country from the airport,” Kabul said. Wendy Sherman, number two in American diplomacy.
“We hope that they will allow all American citizens, citizens of other countries and Afghans who wish to leave the country. Safely and without being harassed,” he added.