{"id":635951,"date":"2021-08-16T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/?p=635951"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:44:00","slug":"kabul-airport-mobbed-as-afghans-make-a-desperate-dash-to-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2021\/08\/kabul-airport-mobbed-as-afghans-make-a-desperate-dash-to-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul planes mobbed as Afghans make a desperate dash to exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_635949\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-635949\" class=\"size-full wp-image-635949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/2b8417a51cf6da387c58c589cd2e4416f6cdeb15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/2b8417a51cf6da387c58c589cd2e4416f6cdeb15.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/2b8417a51cf6da387c58c589cd2e4416f6cdeb15-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-635949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panicked families trying to flee the capital carried overpacked luggage, with frightened children in tow &copy; <b>AFP<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Kabul (AFP), Aug 16 &#8211; <\/i>Frantic Afghans trying to flee the Taliban takeover clung to an American plane as it prepared to take off from Kabul airport, as thousands of people desperately searched for a flight out of the country on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>US troops fired shots into the air and all commercial flights were cancelled as chaos broke out on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic footage posted on social media shows hundreds of men running alongside a US Air Force plane as it rolls down the runway, with some clinging to the side of it.  <\/p>\n<p>In other videos, civilians frantically clamber up an already overcrowded and buckling set of airstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds watched on, as those who successfully climbed the stairs helped others up, while some hung from the stair railings by their hands.<\/p>\n<p>Panicked families with frightened children in tow and laden with luggage were trying to escape the incoming Taliban regime, two decades after the group&rsquo;s harsh rule was toppled by a US-led invasion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air,&#8221; the witness said, asking not to be named in case it jeopardised his chances of leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department said American troops had secured the perimeter of the airport as they evacuate embassy employees and thousands of Afghans who worked for Washington&#8217;s interests since they toppled the Taliban in the wake of the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes at the airport were reminiscent of the chaos that enveloped Washington&#8217;s earlier bungled escape from Vietnam in 1975, even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected the comparison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;We are afraid&#8217; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The US embassy in Kabul tweeted to tell American nationals and Afghans to &#8220;not travel to the airport&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But thousands more Afghans &#8212; even some with no links to the US-led coalition &#8212; showed up in the hope of getting out, without tickets or visas for foreign destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The bedlam at the airport came just hours after Taliban leaders ordered their fighters into Kabul to maintain order as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are afraid to live in this city and we are trying to flee Kabul,&#8221; said a 25-year old man who also asked to be identified only as Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the arrivals were fuelled by rumours spread on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read on Facebook that Canada is accepting asylum from Afghanistan,&#8221; said Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since I served in the army&#8230; there is danger. 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