Urgency to evacuate Afghans builds as deadline nears

Efforts to evacuate thousands of people from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan became increasingly urgent on Tuesday, with Spain warning it would have to leave people behind and France saying it had just three days to complete its airlifts.

The French government said Tuesday, if the United States stuck to the deadline, it would have to end evacuations from Kabul's airport on Thursday. "It is a very frustrating situation for everyone, because even those who reach Kabul, access to the airport is very complicated," Defense Minister Margarita Robles said.About 50,000 foreigners and Afghans have fled the country from Kabul's airport since the Taliban swept into power 10 days ago, according to the US government.

"If you see Afghanistan now, it's all men, there are no women because they don't accept woman as part of society."The Taliban, who ended two decades of war with an astonishingly swift rout of government forces, had been publicly tolerant of the evacuation effort."If the US or UK were to seek additional time to continue evacuations -- the answer is no... there would be consequences," spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Sky News.

Some of have been crushed to death and at least one, a youth football player, died after falling off a plane. The Taliban have repeatedly claimed to be different from their 1990s incarnation, and have declared an amnesty for government forces and officials.

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