LONDON: England will not receive more people for flights from Kabul outside those who have been inside the airport after closing the processing center and entering the final stage of the evacuation from Afghanistan, Defense Minister Ben Wallace said on Friday.
He said England was preparing 1,000 last people inside the airfield that would fly on Friday when the country ended the presence of 20 years in Afghanistan, began to finish his departure before leaving August.
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After the suicide of the bomb that killed 85 people including 13 US troops on Thursday, Wallace said the threat of further attacks at the airport would increase when a militant tried to show that they had forced Western forces from Afghanistan.
“The threat will clearly grow the closer we go,” he told Sky News.
“The narrative will always occur, when we leave, certain groups like ISIS want to risk the claims that they have driven the US or British.” Wallace said no one else would be called to the airport for evacuation and effort will now focus on issuing British citizens and other people who have been cleaned to leave, before the last troops departed “in a few days”.
“With regrets that not everyone can be evacuated during this process,” he said, adding that he thought there were around 100 to 150 British citizens who were still in the country, some of them were very lived.
About 800 to 1,100 Afghans who work with England and qualify to leave the country will not succeed, Wallace told LBC Radio.
So far, England has evacuated more than 13,700 British and Afghan citizens, representing the second largest flight by the Air Force in the country after Berlin Airlift in 1949, the Ministry of Defense said.
Wallace, a former soldier, also said that Thursday’s attack at the airport had not accelerated the British schedule to end the evacuation operation.
The closing of the processing center at Baron Hotel has closed the schedule, he said.