Videos show American soldiers help woman, child over wall at Kabul airport.
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that officials have received reports of people being turned away, pushed back or even beaten as they try to get access to the airport.The Guardian that they were forcibly turning some people around at checkpoints, refusing to let them reach the airport at all.since they seized control on Sunday, according to Reuters. NBC News has not verified the number of dead.Other countries are also scrambling to get their citizens out of the country. Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag said Tuesday that evacuation efforts were unsuccessful because the chaos outside the airport made it impossible to get eligible people on a plane, Reuters reported.
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