Sydney (Australia), Aug 19 (EFE) .- Australia has evacuated another 76 people from Afghanistan in the second of the flights destined to repatriate some 130 Australians and take hundreds of Afghans to the oceanic country, its prime minister reported on Thursday , Scott Morrison.
Morrison indicated that the Armed Forces yesterday deployed 40 additional members in Kabul to assist in the evacuation of this group, made up of Australians and Afghans with visas, who were taken to the Australian base of Al Minhad, in the United Arab Emirates.
The announcement comes after the first rescue plane arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday night to deploy its personnel and take the first 26 evacuees to the base the following day.
From there, the first flight will depart in the next few hours to Perth, where all evacuees must comply with the mandatory quarantine to prevent the covid-19 pandemic.
Australia, which expects to make another flight at the end of the week due to the weather conditions, has admitted that it will not be able to host all of the more than 800 Afghans who worked for the defense forces of the oceanic country during the twenty years of deployment. in Afghanistan.
Evacuation operations are being affected by the chaotic situation at the Kabul airport to which the Taliban are preventing access to Afghans who want to leave, according to the US.
Australia made a contribution to the fight against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan after the attacks of September 11, 2001, although this year they withdrew their last Australian troops from Afghanistan, following in the footsteps of the United States and NATO.
Australia contributed some 39,000 soldiers and was the country that made the largest military contribution outside of NATO.
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