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Human remains found on wheels of US Jet that took from Kabul

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: August 18, 2021 15:09 IST

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The US Air Force has said that its Office of Special Investigations is reviewing an incident at the Kabul airport on Monday in which multiple people were killed when hundreds of Afghan civilians desperate to leave the country swarmed a C-17 cargo plane as it was attempting to take off.
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The Air Force did not say how many people died. It said human remains were found in the plane’s wheel well after it landed at al-Udeid Air Base in the Gulf state of Qatar.
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Videos of the incident, including images of people falling from the aircraft as it took off, were widely viewed on social media
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The images captured the initial chaos of a US-directed evacuation that followed the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
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The Air Force said the C-17 Globemaster III had landed at Kabul airport to deliver equipment for the evacuation effort.
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Before the crew could offload the cargo, the aircraft was surrounded by hundreds of Afghan civilians who had breached the security perimete
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Because the security situation was getting worse, the crew decided to take off.
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The recent political developments in Afghanistan has shocked the entire world.
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In another horrific video, at least two people were seen falling from the skies after the US jet took off and they continued sitting on the wheels. The fate of most of these men who latched onto the jet remain unknown.
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Satellite images have shown swarms of crowds moving on the tarmac of Kabul airport as other countries tried to evacuate their nationals. The evacuation had to be halted on Monday after the chaos at Kabul airport.
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