KABUL: Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell on his death after trying to hold fast to the USLifting US force plane from the Taliban-controlled Kabul, the sports federation said on Thursday.
The Directorate General of Physical Education and Sports Afghanistan, government agencies working with sports groups, confirmed Zaki Anwari’s death in the chaos that erupted at the airport in the capital this week.
“Anwari, like thousands of Afghan youth, wanted to leave the country but fell from the US aircraft and died,” said the group in a statement posted on Facebook.
Thousands of Afghans flocked to the airport this week in an effort to escape from the country, following the Taliban flash attack which ended with them assuming strength when President Ashraf Ghani fled.
The US Air Force aircraft flown above the head after social media videos showed people attached to the plane in Tarmac at Kabul airport on August 16, 2021.
(Reuters photo) in a terrible video from the airport on Monday, hundreds of people were seen running with the force plane US air when collecting speed on the runway – some desperate men hold on to the side.
Further clips on social media seem to show two people falling into their deaths from the C-17 plane after taking off.
Human remains were later found on wheels well, the US military confirmed, added that it was investigating the deaths reportedly related to C-17.
“Before the air crew could reduce the cargo, the aircraft was surrounded by hundreds of Afghan civilians,” said US Air Force spokesman Ann Stefanek.
“Faced with the security situation that deteriorated quickly around the plane, the C-17 crew decided to leave the airport as soon as possible.” US President Joe Biden has received pressure in and abroad to explain how his government seems unprepared for the Taliban fast attack – and the way the US forces resigned from Afghanistan.
The memories of the 1990s brutal regime – who saw music and television were banned, people were prohibited from die and women were limited to their homes – had caused panic about what was in front, encouraging many Afghans to try to escape.