Imagine you want to escape one evil and then fall into the trap of another, what would it be like? This is exactly what people went through at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday. On the fateful day, as people were waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan, to escape the Taliban rule, ISIS struck with twin blasts that tore through crowds thronging outside the airport.
It was not easy for eyewitnesses who manage to escape the blast to be in such a situation, torn between an uncertain future and a bloody present. There were dead bodies, body parts and blood scattered all around. Injured were seen running for help. The nearby sewage canal had turned red from the blood of the innocent people.
Here we bring you a first-person account of the ghastly incident that happened on the fateful day as told to Reuters. The identity of the person has been kept secret because of security concerns as those associated with the former Western-backed government…