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KABUL — The first full day of Taliban rule in Kabul on Monday saw a mad rush by thousands of Afghans on the city’s international airport, in a frantic, last-ditch effort to flee the country.
Hundreds of people ran alongside the wheels of a U.S. military aircraft as it attempted to take off Monday. Others climbed up the sides of the plane as it edged forward, engines roaring.
Some kept hold of the undercarriage even as the aircraft rose, and at least one person appeared to fall from a height during takeoff. One local Afghan news agency published images of a body that apparently landed on a Kabul rooftop.
At least seven people at the airport have been confirmed dead, the Associated Press reported.
The dire scenes illustrated the level of fear sweeping some parts of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover on the heels of the U.S. military withdrawal — a policy decision critics described as the hasty abandonment of a country to which American officials once pledged unflinching commitment.
But in many parts of downtown Kabul, Monday passed largely peacefully, a sharp contrast to the airport chaos. Stores were largely shuttered, although a trickle of people were going about their business. Services such as banks and government offices were also closed.
“What has happened to us? Have we turned into animals?” said one man at the airport as he watched people elbow and kick on a narrow staircase for a seat on a plane that would take them abroad.
Like others in this report, the man spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The man shook his head in disbelief at his surroundings as well as at himself. He was still in the middle of the application process for an expedited U.S. visa. A return to Taliban rule was so concerning that he arrived at the airport with his family, bags packed but no visa and no ticket.
Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/16/afghan-kabul-airport/
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In Bangladesh. It shows a girl walking in a narrow alley, but suddenly a man comes down from above and directly hits the girl, both of whom die on the spot
ᴰᵉᵃᵗʰ ᴮᵉᶜᵒᵐᵉˢ ᴴᵉʳ ♡*˚⁺‧.
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A young woman, mucking about with a group of friends on Avenida Bezerra overpass, suddenly fell. An unknown person tried to grab her hand but the woman fell straight onto the busy road beneath. She was dead on impact. The group she was with ran off.
Traffic was heavy at the time, but she was not hit, though none stopped. Police alerted and were called to the scene and traffic re-routed while they carried out their investigations, talking to eye witnesses and examining her body before it was removed from the scene. The victims name has not been released.
The investigation is being continued to whether she accidently fell or was pushed. (Contrary to some reports, she was not attempting to take her own life.)
Her body will be released for burial once an autopsy has taken place.
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The fall of the resident was recorded by the intercom camera. The victim died on the spot. The paramedics were left only to ascertain death.
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