Videos and photos showing several Afghan civilians dead at the Kabul airport are widely shared on the social media.
BREAKING: Reports of several Afghan civilians dead after #US soldiers fired shots in Kabul Airport as people stormed the tarmac while US and other foreign missions tried to evacuate their diplomats. #Afganistan #Taliban pic.twitter.com/QyVgxURk3T
— Arwa Ibrahim (@arwaib) August 16, 2021
Reports revealed that chaos between Afghan civilians and US army forces erupted as people rushed onto planes in an attempt to escape the country after the Taliban took over keynote regions including the capital Kabul on Sunday.
The US forces are guarding the Kabul airport to make sure there is a safe eviction of its nationals and that of other foreign missions from Afghanistan.