US troops fire shots in air at Kabul airport as crowd mobs tarmac

 US troops fire shots in air at Kabul airport as crowd mobs tarmac

Modupe Shodeinde

United States troops fired shots into the air at Kabul airport on Monday as thousands of Afghans crowded onto the tarmac in the hope of catching a flight out of the country after the Taliban takeover of the country.

Taliban near gates of Kabul as embassies prepare for evacuations

“I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air,” a witness told AFP.

 

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