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Afghanistan's first female mayor said she was waiting for militants to come and kill her.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/afghanistans-first-woman-mayor-flees-country-footwell-car-bag-head-taliban-came-video/</ref>  "I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family.  I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family."<ref>https://inews.co.uk/news/world/afghanistans-first-female-mayor-waiting-taliban-come-kill-her-1152127</ref>  Female journalists feared for their lives and many have been "taken off air" as the Taliban's reign of terror began.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15894474/woman-eye-gouged-taliban/</ref>  An Afghan woman told BBC Women's Hour: "I received an update from Kabul where they are going house to house searching for women who were activists, women who were bloggers, [[YouTube]]rs, any women who had a role in the development of civil society in Afghanistan."<ref>https://twitter.com/BBCWomansHour/status/1427287851016798213</ref>

Afghanistan's first female mayor said she was waiting for militants to come and kill her.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/afghanistans-first-woman-mayor-flees-country-footwell-car-bag-head-taliban-came-video/</ref>  "I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family.  I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family."<ref>https://inews.co.uk/news/world/afghanistans-first-female-mayor-waiting-taliban-come-kill-her-1152127</ref>  Female journalists feared for their lives and many have been "taken off air" as the Taliban's reign of terror began.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15894474/woman-eye-gouged-taliban/</ref>  An Afghan woman told BBC Women's Hour: "I received an update from Kabul where they are going house to house searching for women who were activists, women who were bloggers, [[YouTube]]rs, any women who had a role in the development of civil society in Afghanistan."<ref>https://twitter.com/BBCWomansHour/status/1427287851016798213</ref>

 

Panic ensued as the Kabul airport was flooded with people fleeing the Taliban terror. Some people were stampeded to death.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/3479109/taliban-jalalabad-afghanistan-kabul-uk-troops-2-2/</ref>  At the airport, in desperate scenes, mothers handed their babies over barbed wire to U.S. soldiers in the hope of giving them a life outside the country, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/aug/19/children-passed-over-the-walls-of-kabul-airport-amid-evacuation-chaos-video</ref>  [[UK]] ''Independent'' journalist Kim Sengupta saw four women crushed to death in the space of about an hour, in the crush as Afghans scrambled to leave the Taliban-controlled country.<ref>https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/matt-frei/women-at-kabul-airport-crushed-fleeing-taliban/</ref>  A heartbroken mother found her 2-year-old daughter trampled to death.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/22/fatal-stampede-outside-kabul-airport-takes-place-as-people-attempt-to-flee/</ref>

Panic ensued as the Kabul airport was flooded with people fleeing the Taliban terror. Some people were stampeded to death.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/3479109/taliban-jalalabad-afghanistan-kabul-uk-troops-2-2/</ref>  At the airport, in desperate scenes, mothers handed their babies over barbed wire to U.S. soldiers in the hope of giving them a life outside the country, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/aug/19/children-passed-over-the-walls-of-kabul-airport-amid-evacuation-chaos-video</ref>  [[UK]] ''Independent'' journalist Kim Sengupta saw four women crushed to death in the space of about an hour, in the crush as Afghans scrambled to leave the Taliban-controlled country.<ref>https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/matt-frei/women-at-kabul-airport-crushed-fleeing-taliban/</ref>  A heartbroken mother found her 2-year-old daughter trampled to death.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/22/fatal-stampede-outside-kabul-airport-takes-place-as-people-attempt-to-flee/</ref>