A British businessman described how he was in tears when the German military helped him escape Kabul after a harrowing few days stranded at the airport with the Taliban on one side, U.S. troops on the other and looters marauding through the terminal.
Soon after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday, the businessman, who declined to be named for security reasons, fled to the airport despite gridlocked streets, where he filmed video on his phone showing tanks standing still in queues behind cars."It took me a good few hours to get myself close to the gate and shout out that I am British and please get me out of here," he said soon after his arrival at Frankfurt airport in Germany.
However, the situation was almost as chaotic inside the terminal as within hours there as a panic with people saying the Taliban had taken over the airport and were going to come in. "We were there for a couple of nights without food and water and a night after that ordinary people started coming into the airport," said the businessman.
"They looted the airport and the terminal, they broke everything that was in there: computers, the canteens and we were scared. We were not allowed to go out because Taliban was there and on this side it was the American troops. So we were like, what are we going to do? Just stay here!" he said.
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