Tens of thousands of people are camping on the road to the airport, waiting for the gates to reopen in the morning
Stuart Ramsay, soldiers were covering bodies with white sheets outside Hamid Karzai International Airport this morning.
The correspondent said ‘today it turned chaotic in an instant’ with crushes at entrances and soldiers desperately trying to calm the situation. There have been several reported deaths at the airport in recent days, including people who clung to the side of a plane taking off. But there was confusion when general Hank Taylor told reporters he was ‘not familiar’ with the guidance, adding: ‘There has been no reported change to the current enemy situation in and around the airport at this time.’
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