VIDEO: Toddler passed through crowd to American soldiers behind a wall at Kabul airport
A combo image shows the toddler being passed over the American soldier at Kabul Airport.
Disturbing footage has been circulating on social media of a family passing a toddler through the crowd at the Kabul airport over the wall and into the arms of a US soldier.
The desperate measures by Afghans have shocked the world with western nations engaging in dialogues on the future of the country.
The harrowing developments come as thousands of Afghans continue their attempts to flee the country, with reports suggesting that the Taliban is making it difficult for people to reach the airport.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday that Britain couldn’t evacuate unaccompanied children from Afghanistan in response to a question about another video clip showing a child being thrown over a wall at Kabul airport for British soldiers to take them.
A Parachute Regiment officer said that some desperate mothers were sick of Taliban.
They threw the babies at us… some of the babies fell on the barbed wire. Most of us were crying at the night over the incident.
Earlier, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday that about 400 Afghans working with the European Union and his family have been evacuated to Europe, and another 300 people are still trying to reach Kabul Airport.
It is "our moral responsibility" to save as many Afghans working in the EU office in Afghanistan as possible, but not everyone can leave.
The United Nations announced that it has started evacuating some of its personnel from Afghanistan because hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers tried to flee their country after falling into the hands of the Taliban.
United Nations spokesperson Stefan Dujarrik said about 100 United Nations staff will be evacuated from Kabul to Almaty in Kazakhstan.
Afghanistan came under the grip of Taliban as government collapsed, President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, and thousands of desperate people crowded into Kabul airport trying to escape amid the chaos.
The sudden victory of the militants sparked a state of panic in the capital's airport.
