India to evacuate around 180 people from Afghanistan

India is expected to bring back around 180 people from Kabul in a military aircraft amid a scramble by various countries to evacuate their citizens before the August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of American troops from the war-ravaged country.

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The aircraft carrying around 180 people is likely to reach Delhi, said one of the people cited above.

Under its mission ‘Operation Devi Shakti’, India has already evacuated over 800 people in view of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Kabul after it was captured by the Taliban on August 15.

Thousands of Afghans have been crowding around the Kabul airport for over a week, in a desperate attempt to flee the country fearing the Taliban’s brutality.