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 'Great humanitarian crisis' looms in Afghanistan: UN:

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says a big disaster for Afghanistan and its 39 million humans will start as quickly because the evacuation technique from Kabul ends withinside the following couple of days.  According to Reuters, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filipino Grandi stated in a assertion on Monday that the border ought to be stored open and greater international locations ought to paintings collectively with Iran and Pakistan (which can be already web website hosting 2.2 million Afghan refugees).  "The evacuation from Kabul with the aid of using air may be over in some days, and this tragedy, which has come to light, will now no longer be over," stated Filipano Grandi.  It could be visible, however, that tens of thousands and thousands of Afghans will ought to face it on a day by day basis.  We cannot shy away from it.  A foremost humanitarian disaster is looming. On the alternative hand, numerous rockets had been fired at Kabul International Airport on Monday however had been defused with the aid of using americaA missile protection system.  A U.S. official, talking on circumstance of anonymity due to the attack, stated: "Five rockets have been fired at Kabul airport, even though it isn't clean whether or not they all had been shot down with the aid of using the protection system."  Initial reviews did now no longer suggest any American casualties, however this facts may want to change. The rockets had been fired at a time whilst the withdrawal of US troops changed into much less than forty eight hours away.  According to AFP journalists present, "rockets had been heard throughout Kabul on Monday morning." According to eyewitnesses and protection sources, "numerous rockets had been fired at Kabul airport."  Smoke changed into additionally visible growing close to the airport.