New terror attack 'likely' as UK begins final push of Afghanistan evacuation
The chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee Mr Tugendhat warned the number of people left behind could spark a huge hostage crisis.
"And we'll be looking to see what that means for getting British citizens out, what that means for getting entitled people out and protecting those people who are, quite rightly, literally in fear of their lives now." But in the current operation the Baron Hotel facility, which was being used to process those leaving the country by British officials, has now closed.
It comes as the White House said US president Joe Biden had been briefed that "another terror attack in Kabul is likely". "Initial indications are that we killed the target" - a "planner" of the suicide bombing, Cpt Urban said, adding: "We know of no civilian casualties." "And also it underlines the bravery of our armed services, our troops, everybody else involved in it, and the bravery of the American military who are doing so much as well."
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