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‘We kept on hearing gunshots’: my chaotic escape from Kabul’s airport

Afghan journalist Ramin Rahman, 27, left on a US military plane at Hamid Karzai international airport

The day the Taliban took over started with a call from my friend in Germany. He told me to get to the airport because there was potentially going to be a German embassy evacuation plane leaving that day. He put my name on their evacuation list because I had worked for German media, and I had been in the process of applying for a visa for the past year.

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