WORLD Britain to end evacuations from Afghanistan 'in a matter of hours': defence minister

WORLD

Britain to end evacuations from Afghanistan 'in a matter of hours': defence minister

AFP

14:41, August 27, 2021

Britain said Friday that it plans to complete its evacuations out of Afghanistan "in a matter of hours".

"We will process those people that we have brought with us, the 1,000 people approximately inside the airfield now," British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News. "And we will seek a way to continue to find a few people in the crowd, where we can, but overall the main processing has now closed and we have a matter of hours."

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the Agust 26 twin suicide bombs, which killed scores of people including 13 US troops, at Kabul airport on August 27, 2021.(Photo: AFP)

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