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A group of 111 Afghan schoolgirls in Kabul were able to fly away in a C-17 on Saturday evening in an attempt to flee the Taliban, sources in Doha, Qatar, confirmed to CBS News.
The girls attended a special leadership school in Kabul sponsored by the government of Qatar.
Sources told CBS News that the students successfully arrived at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, and were treated.
The State Department said it could not comment on specific groups of evacuees, but said, “We are working around the clock to maximize evacuations.”
President Biden said on Sunday that there were 11,000 evacuees from Kabul this weekend. Mr Biden said the evacuation would be “hard and painful” no matter what and mentioned “pain, loss and heartbreaking images.”
Thousands of Americans and Afghans are still being evacuated to Kabul as the Taliban have taken control of the country. The United States retained control of Kabul airport, where heartbreaking scenes showed a crush of people desperate to gain access to military planes leaving the country, while the U.S. Embassy in the capital on Saturday warned Americans not to go to the airport and avoid the gates from the airport due to persistent security threats.
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