SCENES at the airport are becoming increasingly horrific as footage shows children being passed over walls by their parents in desperate attempts to save them.
Other vids show people trying to climb over barbed wire into the airport compound and board flights to flee Afghanistan.
Heavily-armed Taliban fighters have been circling the airport’s perimeter fence, and there have been reports of shots being fired at civilians.
One journalist reported to the BBC that they have seen Taliban fighters using sticks and ropes to lash civilians.
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