Two five-year-old girls are set for a new life in the UK after they were able to escape from Kabul.
Asna and Sana smiled for cameras after they were allowed to board a rescue flights, as thousands desperately try to get away after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.
Their dad, Nooragha Hashimi, who served as a translator for UK forces, said he would have been killed if he had to remain in the country.
Asked if he was at risk, he told Sky News: "Yes - they [the Taliban] were gonna kill me.
"It was like everybody was scared [about] what they're going to do, and the first time they're saying we're gonna do nothing [to] anybody, but nobody knows if it will be the same as 1996."
There have been desperate scenes at Hamid Karzai International Airport in the Afghani capital, with huge crowds attempting to get flights out of the country.
Earlier this week the Mirror reported that four women had been crushed to death outside the airport.
And one mum, who has not been named, said her two-year-old daughter was trampled to death as her family tried to get to the airport.
She said they were thrown to the ground amid the crowds with other desperate people trying to escape trampling on them.
When she came to her feet and searched for her little girl, she tragically found her lifeless, reports said.
It is feared thousands of people who assisted British forces could be left behind after the Taliban swiftly took control of the country.
One man brandishing a British passport told ITV News: "I'm a British citizen, my kids are British, and they're stuck here.
"They closed the door on us and they're shooting back at us. My message for the Prime Minister is just to get us out of here.
"Otherwise our kids are struggling and we're all in a big mess here. The British Army is right behind this fence, they've closed the gate and they're not letting no one in."
Hopes that people will be given more time to escape are slimming.
Today Defence Secretary Ben Wallace described the prospect of the withdrawal of troops from Kabul being delayed past the current deadline to allow more evacuations as "slim".
He told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "I think it's a slim chance of an extension beyond August 31. Of course we'd like it, we'd want it, we've talked about it with our allies, the G7 will no doubt talk about it today.
"I look at the public statements by President Biden, I listen to what the Taliban said yesterday to the media, and I think it is unlikely. That's why we've been planning for the worst, of course we hope for the best.
"It's also why, internally, we've changed some of our own timings about withdrawing our military forces.
"Originally, about a week and a half ago, the timescale to draw out our military was about 120 hours. We've managed to cut that significantly, and every hour we save in taking out our own military is an hour we can process more Afghan claimants and people under the scheme.
"Every hour matters."
