At least five people have been killed in Kabul airport as hundreds of people tried to forcibly enter planes leaving Kabul, Reuters reported on Monday, 16 August, quoting witnesses.
Meanwhile, all commercial flights have been suspended at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, TOLO News reported on Monday, quoting a statement, after the closure of Afghan airspace. Earlier, US troops fired shots in the air at Kabul's airport as crowds mobbed the tarmac, news agency AFP reported, quoting a witness.
The Taliban is in control of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded that the insurgents had won the 20-year war.