Afghan baby lost in US airlift chaos reunited with family

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KABUL — A baby lost during the chaotic evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans at Kabul airport has been reunited with his relatives after five months, his elated grandfather has said.

to a foreign soldier among jostling crowds desperate to flee the Taliban after the Islamists seized the capital in mid-August.

"If we had not found his family then we would have protected and raised him as our own child," Mr Safi, 29, told AFP. Many Afghans feared a return to the Taliban's hardline rule of the 1990s or retribution for working with the US-backed government or foreign forces.It was only days ago that relatives of Sohail's were tracked down in Kabul with the help of social media and police, and the boy was handed to his grandfather in a heart-wrenching goodbye for the Safi couple and their three daughters."He used to wake up a lot at night... Now when I wake up he is not there and that makes me cry.

 

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