A day after videos from Kabul airport surfaced showing several Afghans clinging to US airplane’s wheels in a desperate bid to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban’s advance in the country, the US Airforce on Tuesday said it had found human remains on the wheels of the aircraft upon its landing.

The US Air Force has said it is investigating human body remains found on the wheel of a C-17 aircraft that took off from Kabul. The Air Force has issued a statement saying on Sunday, the C-17 Globemaster 3 aircraft of the US Air Force landed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to deliver the necessary equipment. However, hundreds of Afghans entered the plane before the necessary equipment could be removed from the plane. Seeing the deteriorating situation, the crew decided to take the plane back as soon as possible.

A US Air Force C-17 aircraft had landed in Qatar after taking off from Kabul on Monday, where the remains of a human body were seen on the plane’s wheels. Thousands of Afghans were seen hanging on the wings and wheels of the aircraft in order to flee Taliban occupation in Afghanistan as it took off from Kabul on Monday.

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In another horrific video that went viral on social media, two people Afghans who had clung on to the underbelly of a C-17 Globemaster were seen falling down from the plane. It appeared that desperate Afghans were clinging on to either the undercarriage of the C-17 or the landing gear of the transport plane when they got flung out due to the huge G-force exerted during take-off.

The Taliban’s offensive in the country escalated after the withdrawal of US and NATO forces. The terror outfit had come to Kabul after capturing all the big cities including Kandahar, Ghazni. The militants group have captured Kabul in just 22 days.

In other India news, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday evening chaired a high-level security meeting to assess the situation of Afghanistan.

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