Families forever scarred 4 years on from Kabul plane deaths
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The lost dreams of Kabul: A mother’s pain years after her son’s fatal flight
KABUL, Aug 13 — The day after the Taliban stormed into the Afghan capital in August 2021, Afghans desperate to evacuate clung to the fuselage of a departing American plane at Kabul airport—only to fall to their deaths.Four years later, their families still relive those desperate acts and endure wounds they say will never heal.The images sped around the world: hundreds of people running alongside a military plane about to take off, with some clin…
The images have gone around the world: hundreds of people run next to a military plane about to take off and some cling to it. Other videos show silhouettes detaching from the C-17, before sinking into the air. One was Shafiullah Hotak's. At 18 years old
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