Commercial flights from Kabul were cancelled Monday after chaotic scenes at the airport with thousands looking for a way out after the Taliban re-took power in Afghanistan.
“There will be no commercial flights from Hamid Karzai Airport to prevent looting and plundering. Please do not rush to the airport,” the Kabul airport authority said in a message sent to reporters.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel.Earlier in the day, US troops fired shots into the air at the airport as thousands of Afghans crowded onto the tarmac in the hope of catching a flight out of the country.
This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I’ve seen from #Afghanistan. A people who are desperate and abandoned. No aid agencies, no UN, no government. Nothing. pic.twitter.com/LCeDEOR3lR
— Nicola Careem (@NicolaCareem) August 16, 2021
“I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air,” a witness told AFP.
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