Afghan robotics team families rescued

Girls from the Afghan robotics squad fled the state past week. And they had to permission down their families, who person remained successful peril. 

An ambitious cognition to prevention them began Tuesday greeting with a conveyance secretly collecting them from harmless locations, and a erstwhile interpreter for the U.S. subject brought connected to help.

Newsy had been pursuing 22-year-old Elyas Ibrahimi aft the Taliban entered Kabul. His galore attempts to get himself, his sister, and aged begetter to information astatine the airdrome were stressful and unsuccessful.

Now, done a bid of substance messages, helium told Newsy astir the effort that worked — a dangerous, 24-hour trip. It came the aforesaid time the Taliban announced they would halt Afghans from evacuating.

"We are not successful favour of allowing Afghans to leave," said Taliban spokesperson translator Abdul Qahar Balkhi.

The radical was blocked astatine a Taliban checkpoint. Elyas called it "bad luck." The families feared militants would termination oregon apprehension them. Hours passed. Some tried to permission the conveyance and determination wasn't capable nutrient oregon water. Elyas tried to support them calm and translated negotiations betwixt an planetary rescue squad and Taliban fighters.

"We person been thing but unfastened with the Taliban astir who we expect them to fto in," Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said. "Not each measurement of this process is successful our steadfast control. And that determination are going to beryllium instances wherever it doesn't enactment arsenic advertised."

Finally, the Taliban fto the radical through. As of Wednesday, they were astatine Hamid Karzai International Airport waiting for a formation out. 

Elyas says they're feeling "happy" and "safe," with U.S. troops nearby. Talking astir Tuesday's ordeal, and sharing stories astir however beingness has changed successful the past fewer days. The aboriginal for Elyas, these families, and their ambitious daughters are present a small brighter.

This communicative was primitively reported by Sasha Ingber connected Newsy.com.