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22nd August 2021
10:24am BST

"It's so scary here. There's horror in everyone's eyes. No one is allowed through, even with visas," Sara was quoted as saying.
"No one from the US is helping us. No one is telling us which gate to go to - we don't even know when the US flights are leaving. There is violence everywhere but every gate we go to is closed and no one gives us any information or shows any mercy."
In a statement, the MoD said: "Our sincere thoughts are with the families of the seven Afghan civilians who have sadly died in crowds in Kabul. Conditions on the ground remain extremely challenging but we are doing everything we can to manage the situation as safely and securely as possible."
MailOnline reported that one Afghan family had seen more than 15 people including children shot dead.Mary-Ellen McGroarty, the UN’s World Food Programme’s country director for Afghanistan, told the Observer that world leaders needed to act fast to stop an already "horrendous situation" from becoming an "absolute catastrophe, a complete humanitarian disaster".
“We need to get supplies into the country, not only in terms of food, but the medical supplies, the shelter supplies. We need money and we need it now," she told the newspaper.
“Delay for the next six or seven weeks and it’s going to start becoming too late. People have nothing. We have to get food in now and get it to the communities in the provinces, before roads are blocked by snow.”
The Foreign Office says it is trying to get people out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible. More than 3,000 people, including British nationals and Afghan staff, have been evacuated from the country since Sunday, it said.
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