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Johnson: U.K. to Continue Kabul Evacuations After 'Barbaric' Attacks
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Aug 26, 20211:19Now PlayingBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that the UK military evacuation effort from Afghanistan will continue "flat out," following the original timetable, despite a deadly terror attack at Kabul airport.
Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover.
At least 13 people were killed and dozens wounded, Russian officials and aid workers said.
Several Marines were killed and a number of other American military were wounded, a U.S. official said. It was not clear if those deaths were included in the Russian toll.
Johnson said that the terror attack was "despicable," but something that British forces were prepared for.
"It isn't going to interrupt our progress. We're going to get on with this evacuation," he added.
Western officials had warned of a major attack, urging people to leave the airport, but that advice went largely unheeded by Afghans desperate to escape the country in the last few days of an American-led evacuation before the U.S. officially ends its 20-year presence on Aug. 31.
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