They made us sit in open area for hours. Thought we might be killed: Evacuee recounts Taliban horror

Jeet Bahadur Thapa, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, who was evacuated to India from Afghanistan, recounts the Taliban horror hours before he and other Indians left Kabul.

Amid the Taliban takeover of war-ravaged Afghanistan, India and the United States have begun their evacuation process from Kabul. But the Indian nationals who have been evacuated to India still shudder to recount their ordeal of dealing with the group days before they left the war-torn country. One such evacuee, Jeet Bahadur Thapa, recalls how he and other Indians thought they might be killed by the Taliban gunmen any moment as the Taliban gunmen made them sit on the ground in an open space at Kabul airport for five hours, before they could leave for India.