About 110 Afghan collaborators remain trapped in Kabul

About 110 Afghan collaborators who worked for the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in Afghanistan in Badghis province remain trapped in Kabul, a city ​​that has become a place of despair since the arrival of the Taliban.

The former employees ask the Government for an evacuation plan to leave Afghanistan but neither agency nor Foreign Ministry leaders have contacted them, Spanish daily ABC reports.

The number of local personnel who collaborated with the Spanish humanitarian mission in the Central Asian country may be much higher. A large part of the contingent of collaborators have not been able to reach the capital and remain hidden in their cities, some thousands of kilometres from the only exit, Hamid Karzai airport.

Among the collaborators stranded are are doctors, pharmacists, clerks, veterinarians and their families.

By August 27, Spanish Armed Forces had evacuated a total of 1,900 Afghan aid workers and their families, Spaniards and citizens from other countries such as the US and Portugal, the European Union, UN, NATO, and Embassy personnel.

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