First German plane evacuated only seven people from Kabul

‘We had very little time, so we only took people who were on-site,’ defence minister says, blaming chaos at the airport following the Taliban takeover.

The first German military plane to land in Kabul since the Taliban takeover has evacuated only seven people, the government said on Tuesday, due to chaos at the Afghan capital’s airport. Germany, which had the second-largest military contingent in Afghanistan after the United States, wants to airlift thousands of German-Afghan dual nationals as well as rights activists, lawyers and people who worked with foreign forces. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the A400M transport plane undertook a “breakneck landing” on Monday evening, its main aim being to bring in German soldiers to secure the evacuation.