Families Forever Scarred 4 Years On From Kabul Plane Deaths

Source: International Business Times

In this photograph taken in December 2021, Gul Ajan Hotak shows a picture of his son Shafiullah Hotak, who died after falling from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft AFP 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 clinging to it.