Posted on 08/19/21
| News Source: Times of Israel
Thousands of Afghans were packed on Thursday between Taliban checkpoints and a United States-imposed ring of steel around Kabul’s main airport, desperate to get aboard any flight out, following the Islamist group’s return to power.
In some cases, desperate women resorted to throwing their own babies over barbed wire to British soldiers inside the airport, Sky News reported.
The United Kingdom-based outlet quoted an unnamed officer as saying that not all of those attempts were successful.
“It was terrible, women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking the soldiers to take them, some got caught in the wire,” he said. “I’m worried for my men, I’m counseling some, everyone cried last night.”
Meanwhile, Afghans were mobbing foreign embassy compounds in the capital, as rumors spread that visas were up for grabs or safe passage on offer at least as far as the airport.