Desperate parents stranded in Afghanistan are continuing to go to heartbreaking lengths to get their children out of the country.
Another video has emerged showing a baby being passed from the mass of people outside Hamad Karzai International Airport to an American soldier.
In the footage, captured by human rights activist Omar Haidari, the soldier leans over the barbed wire at the top of a wall and lifts the infant from the arms of a man below, before handing the child to his fellow soldiers.
In a statement, the US Marine Corps confirmed the baby seen in the video was subsequently “taken to a medical treatment facility on site” and cared for by medical professionals.
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This is not the first instance of Afghan parents parting with their children in the hope of ensuring their safety.
“It was terrible. Women were throwing their babies over the razor wire, asking British soldiers to take them. Some got caught in the wire,” one UK…
