'I regret to inform you that the high command at HKIA in the airport has announced there will be no more rescue flights,' the university administration said in an email to students.
Hundreds of current and former students, their relatives and staff had gathered at a safe house on Sunday before boarding buses to Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.
But they were told after seven hours of waiting for clearance that the airport gates were a security threat and that civilian evacuations would end on Monday, the eve of the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover. "I regret to inform you that the high command at HKIA in the airport has announced there will be no more rescue flights," the university administration told students in an email on Sunday afternoon, according to theTaliban fighters block a road with a Humvee vehicle near Kabul airport in Kabul on August 28, 2021.The email told the group of 600 or so students and relatives to return to their homes. It also sparked alarm because it said the U.S.
"We are all terrified, there is no evacuation, there is no getting out," Hosay, a 24-year-old sophomore, added. The AUAF was among the first sites captured by the Taliban when the group swept into Kabul earlier this month, according to the
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