The UK’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that he will “get to the bottom of” a security lapse at the abandoned British Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Reportedly, there were documents identifying Afghan staff members and job applicants left behind at the embassy.

As per an Associated Press reports, Times of London reporter Anthony Loyd said that he found the papers scattered on the ground as he toured Kabul’s abandoned diplomatic district with a Taliban escort this week.

Talking about the documents, Defense Secretary Wallace said that it was a security lapse and the event was “not good enough” as the documents were left unattended. He further said that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “will be asking some questions” about the papers being left behind

“We’ll find out and get to the bottom of it,” Wallace told LBC radio.

Thousands of citizens who worked with Western forces have been trying to leave Afghanistan, fearing reprisals now that the Taliban control the country.

The reporter said that the documents included the name and address of a senior embassy staff member, the contact details for other employees and the resumes and addresses of people applying to be interpreters.

When he dialed the numbers, he learned that some of the staff members had already left Afghanistan. However, some of them were still in the country. Those included three Afghan employees and eight family members, who were stranded outside Kabul’s airport as they attempted to flee.

The government said they were eventually found and taken to safety. Meanwhile, a Times report said that the fate of at least two of the job applicants is yet to be ascertained.

The House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee said it would hold an inquiry into how the documents got abandoned during the hurried departure of UK diplomats from the embassy as the Taliban advanced on Kabul earlier this month.

The Foreign Office said in a statement that “during the drawdown of our embassy every effort was made to destroy sensitive material.”

(With inputs from Associated Press)