US evacuates 3,800 people from Afghanistan – Televisa News

Department of Defense America Today, August 21, 2021 indicated that there were “in the last 24 hours” 3,800 people evacuated people, which since last week puts the total figure at 17 thousand, while acknowledging that the situation on the outskirts Kabul Airport It remains “extremely dynamic”.

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At a press conference, Deputy Director of Logistics of the General Staff America, General hank taylor, offered an update on evacuation efforts, and specified that about 2,500 of the 17 thousand were US citizens.

Tailor It also indicated that the airport continues to operate with arrival and departure flights, although it warned that in the event of afghan capital It is “extremely dynamic”.

from the US Embassy in Accept In a message sent this Saturday, August 21, 2021, its citizens were advised to “avoid traveling” Airport or airport gates unless they receive direct notice from a US official to do so.

NS embassy Justified warnings of “potential security hazards” at airport gates.

US troops, who coordinate the evacuation operation, had to halt flights for a few hours this Friday because transit centers were no longer in place to receive the evacuations that Qatar had enabled.

In the final hours, Washington reported that many had agreed to host military flights from the country. America with withdrawal from Afghanistan Denmark, Germany, Qatar, Italy and the United Kingdom to make a stopover in their regions, among others.

America begins to withdraw afghanistan army But Afghanistan has been forced to accelerate the evacuation of the remaining Americans and their Afghan allies in May after the Taliban’s rapid advance, who took Accept And they control almost the entire country.

With information from EFE

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