New Delhi: A video of hundreds of Afghans jostling to climb into an aeroplane to fly out of the country amid the Taliban’s return may become the latest defining image of desperation in a war-torn country.
A parked aircraft at Kabul airport is surrounded by a sea of people who are pushing and fighting to get inside the cabin from the only ladder connected to the front door. Many are seen walking around on the tarmac and making no effort to find a plane to climb in, a sign that they may have given up on the hope of leaving.
US troops fired shots into the air at the airport to disperse the crowd. “I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air,” a witness told news agency AFP.
The Taliban are in control of Afghanistan today after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded the terrorists had won the 20-year war. The astonishingly quick collapse of the government, with terrorists taking over the presidential palace on Sunday night, triggered fear and panic in the capital Kabul.
With inputs from NDTV
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