I saw four children and a woman die in my immediate vicinity, ”reports the employee of a German organization.

The Afghan had been called to the airport by his employer to be taken out of the country with his family.

However, they waited in vain in front of the gate.

There he observed terrible scenes on Saturday.

The woman apparently fainted from exhaustion and dehydration and was then trampled to death because people panicked because of the tightness.

Seven Afghans died that day in the crowd in front of the airport, the British Ministry of Defense said later.

In the entire past week, according to NATO, there were at least twenty.

Some were trampled to death, others were shot, according to eyewitness reports.

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The agent said the Taliban guards regularly beat the crowd with whips and sticks to force them to sit down. But for fear of being trampled on by others, people kept getting up. “When the Taliban saw that the people were dying, they tried to drive the crowd away from the gate with their whips.” In the scorching heat, there was no food or water near the gate. The soldiers had thrown bottles of water from the wall into the crowd, but this also led to dangerous wrangling. “I almost collapsed myself. It was so narrow that if you lifted one leg you couldn't get it on the floor. ”The situation is so dangerous, especially for children, that his family decided to return home after 15 hours on Saturday.

5000 to 7000 people waiting

On Sunday there were reports that the Taliban were intensifying efforts to restore order.

Nevertheless, since the arrival of the Islamists in Kabul, the airport has remained one of the most dangerous places in the city.

The situation for the rescue of Western citizens and especially Afghans is becoming more and more difficult.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace called it impossible on Sunday to fly out all those in need of protection in time.

At the weekend there were 5,000 to 7,000 people waiting on the airport grounds, mostly people who are to be flown out by Americans. Many thousands more people have been crowding in front of the site for days, hoping to get on one of the evacuation flights. Many of them neither have the necessary documents nor do they even have personal papers. This will make it even more difficult for those with the necessary permits to get into the airport. In any case, many of them are afraid of the Taliban checkpoints that they have to pass through. In the case of the employee of the German organization, this was not a problem. He had to pass a checkpoint one kilometer from the airport. His documents were not checked there.