Three children wearing traditional Afghan dress ran in circles around a woman dressed in black, and a masked man holding a toddler flashed a victory sign. "They were eager to leave the plane and get some rest," said one airport employee.
Dozens of evacuees from Afghanistan waited nervously to board a Britain-bound Royal Air Force plane during a stopover in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday after fleeing the Taliban takeover.Īt Dubai's Al-Maktoum airport, a steady stream of aircraft ferrying passengers from Kabul and onwards to Britain shuttled back and forth as London stepped up its evacuation efforts.ĭozens of exhausted passengers waited at one of the airport's departure gates during a stopover ahead of the second leg of what they hoped would be their journey to safety.
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