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KABUL, Aug 22 — Tens of thousands of Afghans were racing today to flee their country as the United States warned of security threats at Kabul’s chaotic airport and the European Union said it was “impossible” to evacuate everyone at risk from the Taliban. In the week since the hardline...

KABUL, Aug 22 — Tens of thousands of Afghans were racing today to flee their country as the United States warned of security threats at Kabul’s chaotic airport and the European Union said it was “impossible” to evacuate everyone at risk from the Taliban.

Sky reporter Stuart Ramsay, who was at the airport, called the deaths “inevitable” and said people were being “crushed”, while others were “dehydrated and terrified”. Circumstances were further complicated on Saturday when the US government warned its citizens to stay away from the airport. “We know that we’re fighting against both time and space,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby conceded, while others gave a bleaker assessment.

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