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Chaotic scramble at Kabul airport as Taliban tightens grip on Afghanistan

  • Troops struggling to reopen airport after seven killed
  • Tens of thousands who helped west still trapped in country

US and other allied troops were struggling to reopen Kabul airport on Monday after seven people were killed in chaotic scenes as desperate civilians converged on the only route out of the capital in the aftermath of the Taliban’s seizure of Kabul.

A day after the group took control of the city, declaring victory after 20 years of war, tens of thousands of Afghans who have been promised resettlement in the west because of their past work with the US, Britain and their allies, remained trapped in the country and in fear for their lives, amid reports of reprisal killings.

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