Babies thrown over razor wire: Report

NEW DELHI/LONDON: Desperate Afghan women were seen throwing their babies over razor wire at the Kabul airport compound, urging British soldiers to take them, according to a Sky News report.

Since Kabul fell to Taliban on

Sunday, thousands of people have been arriving daily at Kabul airport to exit the country.

In a bid to make it to the Kabul airport, Afghan families, usually accompanied by small children, have reportedly been risking their lives, passing several checkpoints in the city manned by Taliban fighters, who have been known to be occasionally beating them.

After Sky News reported the incident, British defence secretary Ben Wallace said that “no child will be taken out of Afghanistan on their own”.

The news outlet, quoting a senior official in Afghanistan, had reported that “it was terrible, women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking the soldiers to take them, some got caught in the wire”.

Wallace said the UK “cannot just take a minor on their own” and that children will be helped out alongside their families while evacuating refugees. He assured that Britain was continuing to evacuate families on planes departing Kabul.

After seeing a video of babies being handed over razor wire on Sky News, he said, “In the footage, I have seen them. If they are families that are coming through as a whole, they will come through. I think we are loading up 120 families on to a plane to depart, another 138 only a few hours later... It is a 24-hour airport now for military planes and they are getting through.”