The nine-month-old girl who was evacuated from Afghanistan along with his father, died shortly after arrival in the United States. It is reported by CBS News.
According to the American TV channel, the child, together with the parent, was first brought to Germany, and then they went to the States on board the Boeing C-17 military transport aircraft. During the flight, the girl lost consciousness, after landing at the airport of Philadelphia, it was taken to the hospital, but soon she died. It is noted that this is the first death case among Afghan refugees who arrived in the United States after the capture of Afghanistan with a radical movement “Taliban” (prohibited in Russia).
Earlier Politico with reference to the sources in the US Presidential Administration, the Ministry of Defense and Congress, said that the American authorities held a secret operation in Afghanistan, during which hundreds of their citizens were able to evacuate from the country and who worked with them the Afghan special forces through the country CIA database. As the interlocutors of the publication told, the operation took place within a few weeks in August. It involved CIA officers, diplomats and representatives of the Command of Special Operations of the United States.
On August 30, the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (USCENTCOM) General Kenneth Mackenzie said that the United States completed the operation on the evacuation of people from Afghanistan. Later it became known that the US military concluded a secret deal with the Taliban – those escorted groups of American citizens to the “secret” goal of Kabul airport for subsequent evacuation.