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In Pics | Satellite images show chaos at Kabul airport


Written by:Shubham
Published: August 17, 2021 02:18:44 Kabul, Afghanistan

Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport has seen chaotic scenes unfold as seas of people attempt to escape Afghanistan in the face of a new Taliban regime. The United States have resumed evacuation operations after they were temporarily suspended on Monday – as American troops gunned down two armed men.

The images shared by Maxar Technologies shows parked aircraft at the airport surrounded by hordes of people desperate to get out of the country. The images also show huge traffic jams outside the airport.

Parked aircraft at Kabul airport are surrounded be people trying to board the planes.
Hundreds try to desperately make their way to planes in an attempt to get out of Afghanistan.
Streets outside Kabul airport have been chaotic since the city fell udner the control of the Taliban.
Huge traffic jams outside Kabul airport as people try to make their way out of the war-torn country.
This satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows swarms of people on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport.

Five people were killed on Monday amid the chaos as hundreds tried to forcibly enter planes. It is not clear whether they were killed by gunfire or in the stampede. US forces had fired shots in the air to disperse the crowds.

Meanwhile, at least three people – who reportedly held on the wings of an American plane – fell to their deaths after the plane took off. In another tragic video, people can be seen chasing a US military aircraft on the runway, with some huddled on its wings as it is taxiing on the runway.

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane, some climbing on the plane, as it moves down a runway of the international airport.
Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport.
Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban.

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