Efforts on to evacuate girls football team from Afghanistan
Updated On: 03 September, 2021 07:43 AM IST | Washington | AP
Now, frightened and desperate, the girls worry whether a far-flung coalition of former US military and intelligence officials, congressmen, US allies, humanitarian groups and the captain of the Afghanistan women’s national team can get them and their loved ones to safety
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They move from place to place at a moment’s notice in a desperate bid to evade the Taliban—girls whose lives are in danger simply because they chose to play a sport they loved.
An international effort to evacuate members of the Afghanistan national girls football team, along with dozens of family members and family federation staff, suffered a crushing setback last week after a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed 169 Afghans and 13 US service members during a harrowing airlift.
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