About 19,000 people were evacuated from Kabul on Tuesday, raising the total number airlifted out of Afghanistan since August 14 to 82,300, the White House said on Wednesday.
In the past 24 hours, 42 U.S. military flights and 48 coalition flights helped evacuate people from the Afghan capital amid the Taliban takeover, it said.
U.S. Air Force staff guide evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 24, 2021. /CFP
U.S. Air Force staff guide evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 24, 2021. /CFP
Source(s): Reuters