A mother has pleaded for help rescuing her child after they became separated in the Kabul airport explosion which left the 23-month-old requiring life-saving surgery.
Muhammad Raza was reportedly among several injured when a suicide bomber struck the Hamid Karzai International Airport, as people lined up attempting to flee Afghanistan.
The Sun on Sunday said his mother, Basbibi, had been waved through a gate en route to an RAF flight leaving Afghanistan when the explosion happened on Thursday.
The paper said she was waiting with seven relatives who were being processed, and she was not allowed to pass back through the checkpoint to check on their welfare.
The 19-year-old told the paper: “I am just desperate to be reunited with my baby. I am praying the British government can do something to bring him here and save him.”
Surgeons removed shrapnel from Muhammad’s abdomen and repaired a rip in his intestines, the Sun added.
On Friday night, The Ministry of Defence said only those UK nationals and Afghans who had already been processed would be airlifted from Kabul airport to free up space for the remaining UK diplomats and military personnel.
The operation at the Baron Hotel facility, which was being used to process those leaving the country by British officials, shut its doors and the final UK troops and diplomatic staff were airlifted from Kabul on Saturday night.
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