Human remains found in C-17 military plane that flew out of Afghanistan
Human remains were discovered in the wheel well of a C-17 military plane that flew out of Kabul amid Afghanistan’s collapse.
The aircraft landed at Kabul’s airport on Sunday and hundreds of Afghan civilians surrounded it, the US Air Force said in a statement to Reuters.
‘Faced with a rapidly deteriorating security situation around the aircraft, the C-17 crew decided to depart the airfield as quickly as possible,’ the statement reads.
The plane was swarmed by Afghans on the tarmac as it departed Hamid Karzai International Airport in the capital, according to ABC News.
The human remains were found on Monday when the aircraft landed at Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
A video earlier on Monday showed hundreds of people running alongside a C-17 plane on the tarmac in Kabul. They breached the runway from the airport’s civilian side, a defense official told ABC News.
On Monday, flights from the airport were suspended for hours as Afghans desperately tried to escape after the Taliban took control.
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