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Pentagon: 'Several Fatalities' as US Plane Flew From Kabul With Afghans Clinging to Side

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Defence Department is aware of several fatalities after a US military transport aircraft departed Kabul international airport... 18.08.2021, Sputnik International

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"Clearly, we know just by visual evidence and by the Air Force’s statement that there were at least several fatalities involved in that, but I don’t want to get ahead of the Air Force’s review in terms of hard numbers of what the total toll was," Kirby told reporters in an off-camera briefing.

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Pentagon: 'Several Fatalities' as US Plane Flew From Kabul With Afghans Clinging to Side

15:43 GMT 18.08.2021 (Updated: 15:44 GMT 18.08.2021)

© AFP 2023 / WAKIL KOHSARAfghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Defence Department is aware of several fatalities after a US military transport aircraft departed Kabul international airport with Afghan civilians clinging to its side, spokesperson John Kirby said on Wednesday.