WASHINGTON - The Afghan baby girl born on a C-17 military aircraft that made an evacuation flight from Afghanistan will forever carry that experience with her. military flights have evacuated more than 11,000 people in recent days, including several thousand British citizens and more than 7,000 Afghans.īritain is planning to end its evacuations before U.S. It is unclear how many Britons remain in Afghanistan. The Foreign Office says anyone in the area of the airport should “move away to a safe location and await further advice.” LONDON - The British government is warning its citizens in Afghanistan to stay away from Kabul airport, citing the “ongoing and high threat” of a terrorist attack. He says the plan is to move 1,500-1,800 people per day on to Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Wolters says evacuees are spending three to four days at the Europe transit stops before they move on. He says just 52 people have required additional security screening, and all of them were eventually cleared.
More than half of them have already returned to Ramstein for further processing and travel onward to more permanent destinations. He says fewer than 100 individuals have needed additional medical screening, and of those fewer than 25 needed medical attention at the military hospital. Wolters says there have been few medical or security problems. Flights will soon be going into the base at Rota, Spain.
Smaller numbers of flights and people have gone to six other European locations, largely bases in Germany. He says the flights brought nearly 5,800 evacuees from Kabul to Ramstein and 662 to Sigonella.
Tod Wolters said Wednesday that 55 evacuation flights from Afghanistan have flown into Ramstein Air Base in Germany and three into Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy. military’s European Command says that so far more than 7,000 evacuees from Afghanistan have been flown to eight locations around Europe, mainly in Germany and Italy. Immigrant families from San Diego area stuck in Afghanistan 2 US lawmakers’ Kabul trip prompts questions, criticism US says 1,500 Americans may still await Kabul evacuation Poland, Belgium end Afghan evacuation as clock ticks down
“That danger and those risks have been increasing each and every day as we always knew they would, and that’s why we’ve been moving with the haste that we have,” he added.
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