Taliban urge people to leave airport in Afghan capital after 12 killed since Sunday
19 August 2021 - 09:47
By Reuters
Image: US Air Force/Senior Airman Noah Coger/Handout via REUTERS US Embassy personnel from Afghanistan board a Qatar Airways flight to Kuwait at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar August 17, 2021
A total of 12 people have been killed in and around the airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Taliban and Nato officials said, since the Taliban seized the city on Sunday, triggering a rush of fearful people trying to leave.
The deaths were caused either by gun shots or in stampedes, the Taliban official said on Thursday, and he urged people still crowded at the gates of the facility to go home if they did not have the legal right to travel.
“We don't want to hurt anyone at the airport,” said the Taliban official, who declined to be identified.