While fear, uncertainty, panic were giving Afghans sleepless nights, many attempted to flee the country gathered at Kabul airport.
A footballer, a doctor and a youth were among those who lost their lives trying to flee Afghanistan on a US Air Force plane on August 16, a day after the Taliban captured Kabul on August 15.
Hundreds gathered at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport to leave the country on 16 August as the Taliban once again captured Kabul after 20 years, fearing a return to their hardline agenda.
While fear, uncertainty, panic were giving Afghans sleepless nights, many attempted to board a US Air Force evacuation plane at Kabul airport.
On 16 August, a US Air Force plane took off from Kabul airport amid chaotic scenes that showed several people trying to get inside as the plane was already running along the runway. It was full.
After failing to catch the plane, some people managed to grab the landing gear of the plane, when two people died after falling from the plane and they landed on the roof of a house. Officials said the remains of another man were found on the plane’s landing gear while it was landing in Doha, Qatar.
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Among those who lost their lives, a footballer named Zaki Anwari, a doctor Safiullah Hotak and a woman have been identified as Fida Mohammed.
19-year-old footballer Zaki Anwari dies while fleeing Afghanistan
Zaki Anwari, a 19-year-old Afghan footballer, was among those killed after being stuck on a US military plane leaving for Doha from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. According to reports, when the plane landed in Doha, its remains were found in the well of its wheel.
According to a report in france24.com, Anwari was identified as one of those who stormed the runway to get stuck in desperate flights. Reports said he was a high school student and a member of the country’s national junior football team.
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According to a report in Dailymail.co.uk, he was stuck in the landing gear of a US evacuation flight.
The report claimed, “Mr Anwari’s remains were found in the wheel well of a US C-17 transport jet when he arrived in Qatar on Monday after takeoff from Kabul, with frustrated Afghans glued to the fuselage “
“His football team, the Khorosan Lions, reported that he was involved in a video of a teenager clinging to the side of a US C-17 transport,” it added.
a doctor and a young man
Another two men who were seen falling from a US evacuation plane in a viral video landed on the roof of a house belonging to an Afghan family.
According to reports, Dr Safiullah Hotak was identified from the birth certificate found in the pocket of a dead body, while another youth was identified as Fida Mohammed.
Blood-soaked bodies were found with stomachs and heads uncovered, about 4 kilometers from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
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