Friday: Dozens killed, including US soldiers, in two suicide bombs near Kabul airport. Plus: Australian swimmers and cyclists add to Tokyo Paralympics haul
Good morning. Two powerful blasts have killed dozens at Kabul’s international airport as the foreign evacuation flights are being wound down. Australia’s national cabinet today will review the updated advice on cautious reopening from the Doherty Institute. And we have a list of things to try to find some joy on the gloomy days of lockdowns.
Two powerful suicide bombs and a gunman hit one of the main entrances to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai international airport, killing at least 60 civilians and 12 US soldiers just hours after western intelligence agencies warned of an imminent and “very credible” terrorist threat. The explosions disrupted a last-ditch attempt to evacuate about 200 Afghan guards of the British embassy, leaving them increasingly frightened about their future. As foreign governments’ evacuations are nearing the end, a former security guard supervisor at Australia’s shuttered embassy in Kabul has issued a personal plea to Scott Morrison for help, saying 1,000 men, women and children are stranded outside the airport. “We have been five days now with the visa you sent us on Sunday night,” the man says in a statement addressed to the prime minister and seen by the Guardian. “Please, we are begging you to save us.”
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