A British businessman has been running from "one house to another" in Kabul as he fears for his life if he is picked up by the Taliban due to his previous work with the British Army.
The man from Manchester, whose identity has been concealed, said he is moving locations every day to avoid detection as Taliban troops carry out "door-to-door searches".
He fears his British citizenship and previous work with the Army will make him a target for the militant group which seized control of the country on Sunday, reports the Manchester Evening News.
He said: "I am very scared. I do not know what is going to happen.
"The Taliban are going door-to-door. They are trying to search each house to find foreign nationals and those who worked with foreign forces.
"They are taking people away and hiding the evidence. They are seizing smart phones to hide the evidence.
"It is a very scary situation. We are moving from one house to another. We are moving every day. It's a very critical situation. We fear for our lives.
"We don't know what's going to happen in the next few days. Last night the Taliban spokesman recorded a statement saying they will not hurt the people who worked with foreign forces. But they say one thing and do another."
The businessman, who lives in south Manchester where he owns a number of takeaways, returned to Afghanistan to get married earlier this month.
It was the first time he had been to the country of his birth since moving to the UK in 2006.
He said he was granted British citizenship after working as a radio operator with the British Army in Helmand Province.
And he said he's been trying to flee the country for the last four days and managed to get to Kabul Airport on Monday, but was turned away by American troops.
Checkpoints now make it too risky to try reach the British Embassy in person and he said he's been unable to get through on the phone.
He said: "We didn't know the situation was so high risk. We didn't know the government was going to collapse so quickly.
"The situation has gone bad so quickly.
"The British Embassy's numbers are not working, or when they start ringing there is no-one answering them. I am waiting two to three hours to be connected, but no-one is answering.
"There are checkpoints across the city. They are checking ID, looking for foreign citizens. I would be arrested immediately.
"I am going to run out of money and phone credit soon. We can't go outside to get food because of the checkpoints. It's a terrible situation We do not know what we are going to do."
Foreign Office officials are advising all British nationals still in Afghanistan "to shelter in place unless further flight options become available".
Most operations at the British Embassy in Kabul have been temporarily suspended, with assistance only available remotely.
On Monday MoD officials, soldiers and other civil servants were reportedly processing claims from up to 4,000 Afghans thought to be eligible for resettlement in the UK amid chaotic scenes at Kabul airport.
A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said: "We are working hard to contact all the British nationals we are aware of who remain in Afghanistan, to help them leave the country.
"The safety of them is our top priority which is why we have been urging British nationals to leave Afghanistan by commercial means since April 21.
"On August 6 we updated our advice to urge British nationals to leave immediately and to update us on their plans for departure."
