At Kabul airport, two young men, obsessed with leaving the country, clung to the wheels of the plane and fell to the ground from a height during the flight.
According to the international news agency, after the Taliban entered Kabul and occupied the presidential palace, thousands of Afghans gathered at the Hamid Karzai airport to leave the country.
Citizens were in a state of panic and obsession, trying to get on every plane that flew from the airport. Meanwhile, two youths clung to the door of a compartment containing the wheels or luggage of a C-17 aircraft. Chaotic scenes as Afghans attempt to cling to US Air Force plane departing from Kabul
Latest: https://t.co/eRDvQGay6B pic.twitter.com/moOTTuxoF9
The plane took off and flew into the air as soon as it was seen. Meanwhile, the two youths fell from the plane and died on the roof of a house near the airport. The shocking video of the accident went viral.
Eyewitnesses say the number of young people who fell from the plane is not 2 but 3, but this remains to be confirmed. Footage shows chaos at Kabul International Airport as hundreds try to flee the besieged Afghan capital as Taliban forces move in https://t.co/WL7TY2ShCS pic.twitter.com/SmxLlC01Pp
Meanwhile, chaos at the airport and a mob trying to break into the runway, US military firing killed five civilians.
