Taliban fighters seen enjoying amusement park rides after capturing Afghanistan
By Team Newsable | First Published Aug 17, 2021, 12:55 PM ISTSome armed with weapons, Taliban militants, can be seen riding on the electric bumper cars in the footage. They can be seen riding tiny merry-go-round horses in another video.
A day after conquering Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul, Taliban fighters enjoyed amusement park rides on Monday. Videos of the incident were widely circulated on the internet. Some armed with weapons, Taliban militants, can be seen riding on the electric bumper cars in the footage. They can be seen riding tiny merry-go-round horses in another video.
These videos are in addition to those that have surfaced on the internet, in which civilians attempting to leave Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover are shown sprinting alongside and clinging to a US Military Aircraft on the Kabul airport's runway. The footage also showed that two passengers hanging to the plane's exterior perished after falling off it after it took off. The video quickly went popular on social media.
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