Exit from Afghanistan: US evacuates 3,000 people yesterday, in 5 days last flight to Britain

The images coming from Kabul airport are dramatic after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan as thousands of people try to flee the country.

The United States evacuated about 3,000 people from Kabul airport on Thursday, a White House official said.

“The United States evacuated about 3,000 people from Hamid Karzai International Airport on 16 C-17 flights,” the official told reporters today, adding that nearly 350 were US citizens.

“The evacuees also include family members of US citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and their families and vulnerable Afghans,” the official said.

Meanwhile, the London Times reports today that Britain will make its final flight from Kabul in five days under an accelerated timetable for leaving Kabul. Afghanistan.

The ministers were informed this week that the last evacuation flight may have to depart on Tuesday, before the scheduled departure of US forces on August 31, the newspaper reported, citing sources quoted by Reuters and the Athens News Agency.

Another government source reportedly stated that the date of August 24 has not yet been officially agreed.

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