Among the thousands of Afghans who came running to Kabul airport yesterday, over 600 of them managed to fly out in a US Air Force transport plane at the last minute.
Photos of the a Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III with hundreds of panicked Afghans sitting on the floor of the aircraft have been shared widely.
All of them including women and children do not appear to be carrying any luggage, implying they have left all their belongings behind while fleeing from the Taliban.
The transport aircraft took a total of 640 Afghans, believed to be among the most people ever flown in the C-17, according to the news website Defense One.
This aircraft flew to Qatar, where the Afghans disembarked, the website reported.
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