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Soldiers Haunted By Women Throwing Their Babies Over Barbed Wire At Kabul Airport In Desperate Bid To Escape

Troops from inside the Kabul airport have narrated horrific stories of how desperate Afghan women threw their babies over the barbed wire, asking the soldiers to take them.

A barbed wire at the Kabul airport separates the US and UK troops from the thousands of desperate Afghans trying to flee the country. From behind the wire and gates, these men and women have been crying for help from the troops. A report by Sky News narrated how the daily experience of standing guard against the Taliban and the thousands of Afghans pleading for help have been haunting the troops.

A senior British army official told the reporter how his troops have been crying at night after seeing women throwing their children over the barbed wires, asking the soldiers to catch them on the other side. “It was terrible, women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking the soldiers to take them, some got caught in the wire,” narrated the British soldier.

Kabul airport has turned into a scene of immense desperation ever since the Taliban took control of the Afghanistan capital and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Thousands of men, women and children were seen rushing towards the Kabul airport even as US troops opened fire to control the crowd.

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Hundreds of Afghans were seen crowding the US Air Force jet as it took off from the runway, some managed to hang on to the wheels of the flight or sat on the wings, only to fall to their deaths from the sky.

New videos from the Kabul airport have emerged showing women crying for help from outside the gates and barbed wires, pleading the troops to let them in. In the video, the women are heard saying, “Help us, the Taliban are coming.”

On Wednesday, in another incident, a man who used to work as an interpreter for the Australian army, said that he had been waiting in line to reach the airport gate when a member of the Taliban, who was guarding a checkpoint, shot him in the leg. The man was trying to reach Australia’s first military evacuation flight out of Kabul airport on Wednesday morning. Around 26 people were able to board the flight, including Australian citizens and Afghan nationals.

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