Kolkata / Siliguri / Kalimpong: Records the view of the corpse scattered throughout the blood road outside the Baron Hotel near Kabul airport on TV, Kishan Gurung feels his backbone.
He and other people have witnessed the same scene just a few days ago.
It was at Baron Hotel Rumpn that Gurung and 44 others from the Italian Embassy had shelter from 17 to 21 August.
The group was on his way to the airport when stopped by the Taliban man and returned after interrogation.
Instead of returning to the embassy, ​​they have sheltered in the hotel yard, sleeping in an open place with a trash bag converted into a temporary sleeping bag.
Gurung and the others have tried to go to the airport twice, but have retreated on both occasions: once on a shot nearby, and the second time when they saw the body that was raised by blood on the road outside the hotel.
Finally, SOS to the British Embassy helped, because the army saved them on August 21.
Gurung returned to India the following day.
Thanking his stars to stay alive and reunited with his family in Kameong, a former Indian army riding on strike.
“It was the same way we took to reach the airport.
I remember sleeping in a garbage bag on the hotel page.
We hid there until some soldiers save us.
They are very brave men who work in hard and dangerous conditions.
I’m afraid of some From them may have died in the explosion, “said Gurung.
More than 100 people have been killed, including at least 13 US troops and 90 Afghanistan, in an explosion that ripped the crowd trying to enter Kabul airport on Thursday.
A suicide bombing at the airport monastery gate was followed by armed attacks.
Another bomb attack took place at Baron Hotel.
Gurung said he felt airport susceptibility and hotels because of the mass of large and uncontrolled people who had gathered there.
“On the day we were saved from the hotel and taken to the airport, we saw 12 bodies on the road.
Only a matter of time before several terrorists pulled the trigger.
I didn’t even want to imagine how the scenery was after the explosion.
But the pictures on TV continued to float before me , “said Gurung.
Because the Taliban took control of the country and the border crossing of the land closed, the airport was the only way out of this country for many people, and the road to the airport had become a choc-a-block with people who became a duck sitting when terrorists attacked.
Nimta Resident Tamal Bhattacharya, a science teacher in an international school in Kabul, who is one of the first to return after the Taliban takeover, think the situation in Kabul is not as bad as international media.
He was stunned by recent developments.
“I just thought how lucky I got away from death and chaos.
I will still thank the Indian Air Force and the Ministry of External Affairs to save me and hundreds more,” he said.
Bhattacharya has panicked trying to contact several colleagues and students, but can’t reach them.
Umesh Gurung, another former army rescued by officials of the British Embassy and managed to reach Delhi on August 16, also thank the stars because they could escape from the country.
“We were blessed that we were at home and still breathed.
If we were stuck there, we did not know if we could make it so far.
We have passed the stretch, where the bombing occurred, walked, was escorted by the airport by embassy officials English.
The road is all very familiar, “he said from his darjeeling house.
Afghan citizen in Kolkata is also worried.
“My family is still trapped there.
The last I heard, they were in a relative place and did not come out of the house.
But I have not been able to contact them since the explosion.
They live very close to the airport and try to come to India,” said a merchant, who did not Want to be named after, afraid of the safety of his family.