(ANSA-AFP) - KABUL, 09 SEPT - The first flight for the evacuation of foreigners from the withdrawal of US troops took off from Kabul, while tomorrow a one-second take-off is scheduled. On board the Qatar Airways plane to Doha, taking off in the afternoon, there are 200 people, including a group of Americans. After boarding formalities, passengers were transferred to buses under the surveillance of Qatar agents, who oversee the operation. On each vehicle about thirty people who, after getting off the runway, got on the plane that took off immediately after.
Tomorrow's second flight will also be of Qatar Airways if it will fly to Doha from Kabul to evacuate a second group of foreigners whose nationality is unknown, reports the BBC.
Meanwhile, the special envoy of Qatar in Afghanistan, Mutlaqal-Qahtani, commenting on the flight that left today, spoke of a "historic day" for the airport of the Afghan capital. Sitratta - he added, quoted by the AFP - of a fundamental step on the way to the reopening of the airport to international flights, which however will be "gradual". (ANSA-AFP).