For hundreds of Afghans waiting day and night around Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, making all desperate attempts to flee the country ruled by a terrorist organisation, every day is like thousand deaths. But the evening of August 26 that came with barbaric twin explosions was like witnessing doomsday.

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Among the people, who were present at the explosion site, was a former employee of an international development group with a US special immigrant visa. His day began like any other- waiting for his turn to flee the war-torn country outside the airport, where thousands of Afghan people, with the same hope in heart. But the day ended like never before.

He had been in the queue near the airport’s Abbey Gate for around 10 hours when, at around 5 pm, a powerful explosion went off.

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Narrating his experience, the man told Reuters, “It was as if someone pulled the ground from under my feet; for a moment I thought my eardrums were blasted and I lost my sense of hearing.”

“I saw bodies and body parts flying in the air like a tornado taking plastic bags … into the air. I saw bodies, body parts, elderly and injured men, women and children scattered in the blast site,” the man added

“It is not possible to see doomsday in this life, but today I saw doomsday, I witnessed it with my own eyes,” he said.

The witness further added that the situation was such that there was no one to handle the issue and move the bodies and the wounded to the hospital or take them out of sight of the public.

“Dead bodies and wounded were lying in the road and in the sewage canal. The little water flowing into it had turned into blood,” Reuters quoted him as saying.

Talking about the impact of the blasts on his mental health, the man said, “Physically, I am OK … but I don’t think the mental wound and the shock I sustained from today’s blast will ever let me live a normal life.”

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The man did not wish to be identified as in the Taliban ruling state, anyone who worked with a western country, especially the US, any kind of spotlight can be an invitation of death.

A twin suicide bomb attack killed more than 100 people outside Kabul airport on Thursday, according to AP. A Taliban official earlier said that the deceased include children, according to a Reuters report. Earlier, the news of one of the explosions was confirmed by the Pentagon.

Thousands of people had gathered at the Kabul airport to flee the country as part of evacuation operations of several countries triggered by the Taliban‘s take over of Afghanistan earlier this month.