More than 100 Americans evacuated from Afghanistan on private charter, organizations say
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More than 100 US citizens and green card holders and nine special immigrant visa holders were evacuated from Afghanistan via a private charter flight on Tuesday, according to two organizations involved in the effort.
Project Dynamo and Human First Coalition said in a press release that the group of evacuees were "moved overland, COVID tested, MMR vaccinated, securely housed and evacuated to safety the afternoon of September 28, 2021 at 2:00 P.M. local time."
Among the passengers evacuated from Kabul were 59 children under the age of 18 and 16 under age 3, according to the groups.
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