Dramatic scenes at the Kabul airport
.
"It was horrible, the women threw their children over the barbed wire" at the airport "asking the soldiers to pick them up."
This is the story to Skynews of a senior Afghan official
, who added that some children "got entangled in the barbed wire".
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And 12 people have died at Kabul airport since Sunday, when the airport was stormed by Afghans and foreigners terrified by the Taliban's entry into the capital
: both Taliban and NATO sources told Skynews. . Thousands of people are still trying to flee the country via Hamid Karzai airport, but the Taliban continue to appeal to Afghans to return to their homes.
And more dead and wounded in Asadabad and Jalalabad
: the Taliban opened fire on the crowd during the annual celebrations of the country's independence. In
Asadabad
, in eastern Afghanistan, at least 4 dead and eight injured. It is still unclear whether the deaths were caused by the bullets of the fundamentalists or by the stampede caused by the gunshots. And injured, at least two, a man and a boy, in Jalalabad, again for the same situation, reports Al Jazeera, also reporting that in Khost (south) the fundamentalists have imposed a curfew to prevent the population from protesting against them.
In the last 24 hours, the situation of the wounded received by Emergency's Surgical Center for War Victims in Kabul has "significantly improved": the hospital admitted only 6 life-threatening patients and treated 24 people in its emergency room, while two people had already died upon arrival at the Center.
"At the moment there are no open fights in the city, but the tension inside the airport remains high: during the morning we have already received two patients with bullet wounds from there," says Alberto Zanin, Medical Coordinator of Emergency in Kabul.
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