She said that on August 18 - three days after the Taliban seized Kabul - she and her family took a car to the city's airport, where she hid in the footwell and ducked every time the vehicle went through a Taliban checkpoint.
Zarifa Ghafari speaking in Germany after being evacuated out of Afghanistan.One of Afghanistan's first female mayors said she had to hide from the Taliban to reach Kabul airport.She said fighters came to her house and beat up her security guard after taking control of Afghanistan.One of Afghanistan's first female mayors said she hid in a car footwell to avoid the Taliban while trying to flee to Kabul airport.
She said that on August 18 - three days after the Taliban seized Kabul - she and her family took a car to the city's airport, where she hid in the footwell and ducked every time the vehicle went through a Taliban checkpoint. "When we reached the airport gate, there were Taliban fighters everywhere," she said. "I was struggling to hide myself."She called the day the Taliban took Kabul as the "worst moment of my life."
"I'll never be able to manage the pain inside my heart. I never planned to leave my country," she said.Her father, a senior member of the Afghan military, was killed last year, and Ghafari told the BBC she thinks he had enemies in the Taliban.
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