Kolkata: A city youth, who worked for an NGO in Afghanistan, was watching terrible scenes that took place at Kabul International Airport on Monday which resulted in the death of several people who were desperate to escape from the country.
The young man, who requested that he was not named for security reasons, was to take commercial flights from Kabul on Monday.
“When I arrived at the airport at around 7:30 a.m., it was flooded with 8,000-10,000 people who tried to escape.
There was a shot to disperse the crowd at Tarmac, people ran panicked and we were told to leave immediately.
After two hours of bedb, I was forced to return, “The young man told ToI from Homein Kabul.
With all the commercial flights being glared, the young men sent voice messages to their friends in India, colleagues in Kabul, sent and sent messages of the Indian Embassy, ​​MEA and the office of the minister’s chairman in Bengal to ask for help.
“It’s traumatic and heartbreaking to see a messy country before your eyes.
No one knows that the Taliban will soon enter Kabul.
We were told as long as US troops were there, the situation would be controlled.
But the lives of people changed overnight.” He said .
“On Sunday, I chose to live with a colleague when I gather it wouldn’t be safe to stay in my apartment which was very close to the Presidential Palace,” remember the young men.
Kolkata’s resident said, “I spent a nervous night and could not sleep.
On Monday, the Taliban had taken control of the country and there was a checkpoint on the way to the airport.
But they checked my documents and let me go.
I chose to wear pehran Tumban, Afghan dress, so as not to offend the Taliban.
“The young man, who has no plans to leave Afghanistan in the near future but has registered with a special Afghan cell MEA to coordinate repatriation, now waiting impatiently at a friend’s house checking the phone every minute to Message from the Indian Embassy.
“There was so much uncertainty that my mind had stopped working.
On Monday night I received a message from the embassy who said they were preparing to evacuate Indians in Kabul and ask us to wait.
They also told us not to explore,” he said.
“They say the Taliban will not attack Indians, but we cannot take risks and keep returning.
The situation in volatile.
I counted the clock to leave Afghanistan and return home,” he said.