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Crush at Kabul airport kills 7 as Afghans try to flee

Taliban fighters stand guard as Afghans gather outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport to flee the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Taliban fighters stand guard as Afghans gather outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport to flee the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

By AHMAD SEIR, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The British military says at least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport. Thousands are still trying to flee the country in a chaotic exodus a week after the Taliban takeover. The Taliban, meanwhile, moved to confront the first stirrings of armed resistance since capturing nearly the entire country in a matter of days earlier this month. Anti-Taliban fighters claimed to have captured three mountainous districts, and a militia commander in the only province not yet under Taliban control pledged to fight back if attacked. President Joe Biden said 11,000 individuals were evacuated from Kabul over the weekend.

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