Serbian citizens wait to get evacuated from Kabul: Situation is chaotic, shots are heard

Two citizens of Serbia, Marko Pribak and Aleksandar Cvejic, who are in Kabul where they are waiting to somehow leave the country, told N1 that shots were heard around the airport and that the situation is chaotic.

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They are waiting for the ambassador reach agreement with a country to put them on the evacuation list.

"The situation is changing from minute to minute, Taliban forces entered the city without any resistance, some negotiations started and the president stepped down," Aleksandar Cvejic recounted the events of yesterday.

He said that the civilian part of the airport is closed, and that about 2,000 Afghans are trying to enter from the military side, in order to leave the country. Today an armed local burst into the airport, he said, adding that it is possible that he was killed.

These two Serbian citizens work in Afghanistan for an international company.

"We've been trying to get commercial flight tickets for the last six days, and they would all get canceled 24 hours before takeoff. We do not have any tickets or possibility to leave the country on a commercial flight," says Cvejic.

He says that they are in contact with Sinisa Pavic, the ambassador of Serbia who is in New Delhi and who has been trying to help them since yesterday. They say that they learned from him that there is only other Serbian citizen in Kabul.

"Colleagues and friends from BiH, Croatia and Slovenia helped us here to get to this safe place from our camp. We are next to the entrance to the military part of the airport, where we are waiting for our entrance to be approved - they do not let anyone in who is not on the evacuation list," says Cvejic.

According to him, they are in a hotel guarded by US soldiers, where there are a lot of foreigners from the US, Great Britain...

He states that Ambassador Pavic is doing everything in his power to get in touch with any country that would put them on the list for leaving Afghanistan.

US troops fired warning shots at the Kabul airport to prevent hundreds of civilians from entering the runway, officials said.

"The crowd was out of control. The shots were fired to avoid chaos," an unnamed official said.

(Telegraf.rs)