A screenshot from the video of evacuees arriving in Oxfordshire (PA on Twitter)
Last night a plane carrying hundreds of evacuees from Afghanistan landed in Oxfordshire, video footage shows.
The video, published on Twitter by the Press Association, shows evacuees leaving the plane in the early hours of this morning at RAF Brize Norton, near Caterton.
The flight from Afghanistan’s capital Kabul landed ahead of the August 31 deadline set by the Taliban.
The deadline is set for all troops and allied forces to leave the country.
See the video below:
A plane carrying hundreds of Afghan evacuees landed at RAF Brize Norton in the early hours of Tuesday pic.twitter.com/JQkAnsAO3Y
— PA Media (@PA) August 24, 2021
More than 7,000 people have already been evacuated from the country since August 13, the Government states.
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