UKRAINE: A Ukrainian aircraft, which had gone to Afghanistan recently to evacuate its citizens, has been hijacked and taken to Iran. This was informed by a Ukraine minister to a news agency on Tuesday.
As per reports, the plane had gone to Afghanistan last week to evacuate Ukrainians. Ukraine's deputy foreign minister Yevgeny Yenin told a Russian news agency TASS that their aircraft was hijacked by "other people" on Sunday and the same was practically stolen on Tuesday.
It was taken to Iran with a group of unidentified people instead of airlifting Ukrainians. Their last three attempts to evacuate Ukrainians were also not successful as the people (Ukrainians) failed to reach the airport, the deputy foreign minister said.
Another report said the plane had arrived in Kabul to airlift its citizens and was hijacked by unidentified people who took it to Iran.
Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the situation in the latter has been horrible. The Kabul airport had witnessed heartbreaking scenes of a massive number of people thronging its premises and even holding on to aircraft on the runway in a desperate attempt to get out of the country.
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