Medical and hospital staff carry an injured man out of a car for treatment after two blasts, which killed at least five and wounded a dozen, outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
Madrid,听Spain/London, United Kingdom 鈥� Spain said Friday that it has ended its evacuation operations out of Kabul following the arrival of 鈥渢he last two Spanish flights鈥� in Dubai, just over a week after it began airlifting its citizens in the wake of the Taliban鈥檚 takeover of Afghanistan.
鈥淎 military A400 plane arrived in Dubai from Kabul at 7:20 am. A second is due to land at 8:20 am. With these two flights, the Spanish evacuation of its Afghan collaborators and their families has been completed,鈥� the government said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Britain said Friday that it plans to complete its evacuations out of Afghanistan 鈥渋n a matter of hours.鈥�
鈥淲e will process those people that we have brought with us, the 1,000 people approximately inside the airfield now,鈥� British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky 黑料社. 鈥淎nd 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.鈥�