Shocking video footage from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has shown what is reported to be three young men falling to their deaths after holding onto the wheels as a plane took off.
The airplane in question was a C-17 U.S. military aircraft.
A video from the Afghan Asvaka News agency was tweeted with the caption:
"The video shows a flight from Kabul airport where two people are thrown from a plane into the people's homes."
Exclusive- A clear video (from other angle) of men falling from C-17. They were Clinging to some parts of the plane that took off from Kabul airport today. #Talibans #Afghanistan #Afghanishtan pic.twitter.com/CMNW5ngqrK
— AÅ›vaka - آسواکا News Agency (@AsvakaNews) August 16, 2021
Not a scene of Hollywood, it’s Just #Kabul air port, people want to run away, after the Capture of Kabul by the #Talibans #Afghanistan
— AÅ›vaka - آسواکا News Agency (@AsvakaNews) August 16, 2021
By: @Mukhtarwafayee pic.twitter.com/ZLYieJm9mX
The news agency then tweeted:
"Locals near Kabul airport claim that three young men who were holding themselves tightly in the tires of an airplane fell on top of people's houses. One of the locals confirmed this and said that the fall of these people made a loud and terrifying noise."
Adding later:
"Locals while collecting the bodies of three men clinging to the wheels of the plane that took off from Kabul airport, they were then fell to the ground near Khairkahana area of Kabul."
The terrible incident occurred as the U.S. leaves the country and the Taliban seize total power after a brutal 20-year war that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
Many Afghans fear that they will be killed by the Taliban when they have asserted full control and are now seeking to leave the country immediately. In order to do so many fled to Kabul airport where they hoped to hitch rides on commercial and military aircraft.
Many believe Taliban will impose strict Islamic law in the country, as they did prior to the 2001 NATO invasion, and that this will involve halting education for women, and executions for anyone who opposes the regime or who does not wish to follow their strict Sharia law.
Many of those most in fear are those Afghans who assisted the American and NATO troops while they were in the country, or those who worked for the Afghan government or army who were fighting the Taliban for years in the Afghan countryside.
Women in public roles also fear they will be dealt with particularly harshly.
[h/t: Newsweek]
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