The U.S. military, which was tasked with guarding Kabul International Airport, fired into the air this morning to repel thousands of Afghans on the runway.
Citizens in their desperate attempt to leave the country after the Taliban movement seized power, said an eyewitness.
Indicative of the prevailing situation are images that are circulating, with people hanging from planes in a desperate attempt to leave the country.
“The crowd was out of control,” he told Reuters. US military aircraft.
Thousands of Afghans have gathered at Hamid Karzai airport in a desperate attempt to flee the country as Islamist Taliban insurgents seized most of Kabul on Sunday.
Nearly 6,000 U.S. troops, according to the State Department, are guarding the airport through which members of diplomatic missions and citizens of various countries, as well as Afghan workers at foreign embassies, are being evacuated from Afghanistan.
Testimony about a dead girl
The information that the American soldiers opened fire was spread earlier by the French Agency, citing an eyewitness.
“I am just scared. They fired into the air. “I saw a young girl being crushed and dying,” he said as he was trampled by the crowd, the eyewitness told AFP.
More than 60 governments are calling for foreigners to leave safely
The governments of more than 60 countries have issued a joint statement stressing that Afghans and foreigners wishing to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to leave safely and that airports and border crossings must continue to operate normally.
The joint statement was made public by the State Department.
The governments of the United States and 60 other countries, including Greece , Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Qatar and the United Kingdom, emphasize that “those who are in “positions of power” in Afghanistan bear “responsibility” and will “speak” for the “protection of human life and property” and call for an “immediate restoration of security and public order”.
The joint statement added that “the Afghan people deserve to live in security and dignity” and “we in the international community stand ready to help.”
