Desperate bid to flee Taliban - STAMPEDE at Kabul Airport kills 5 as thousands storm planes

Breaking news: A STAMPEDE at Kabul Airport has left five people dead as thousands storm planes in a desperate bid to flee Afghanistan. In chaotic scenes echoing the sudden fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war, petrified men, women and children were filmed trying to get on aircraft after the Taliban stormed the capital. Desperate people were filmed trying climb up a ladder to get on a plane while others were seen being pulled on board another aircraft. One witness said he had seen the bodies of five people being taken to a vehicle at the airport. At one stage, US troops guarding the airport were forced to fire shots into the air but it’s unclear if those who died were hit by bullets or crushed in the stampede. At one stage, US Apache helicopter gunships swooped down across a runway to clear desperate people trying to board a transport aircraft. Residents of Kabul today woke up to their first day under Taliban rule with reports the hardliners were scouring t