Evacuation flights resume in Afghanistan

Evacuation flights from Afghanistan have resumed with new urgency, a day after two suicide bombings targeted thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban’s takeover.

The United States says further attempted attacks are expected ahead of the August 31st deadline for foreign troops to leave, ending America’s longest war.

Kabul residents say several flights took off Friday morning.

Thursday’s bombings near Kabul’s international airport killed at least 95 afghans and 13 u-s troop members. Officials say the actual death toll is even higher because others were involved in evacuating bodies. Ottawa officials confirm no Canadian military members were hurt.

Acting chief of defence staff general Wayne Eyre says it is heartbreaking that Canadian soldiers could not stay longer in Afghanistan to rescue everyone who was so desperate to leave the war-torn country.

An unknown number of Canadians and their families remain trapped in Afghanistan, after the federal government announced the end of its evacuation mission yesterday. Canada boarded around 37-hundred Canadian nationals and afghan refugees onto evacuation flights in recent weeks.