‘I saw children falling down’: panic and despair in Kabul as time runs out

Faced with crowd stampedes and Taliban reprisals, even those eligible for travel to UK have begun to give up hopeFor the past four days, Nangyalai, a 42-year-old minicab driver from south London, has been queueing with his wife and 11-month-old baby outside the Baron hotel on the edge of Kabul airport, trying to get close enough to the entrance gate to show guards his British passport.There is a sign by the gate stating “British passport holders only”. Inside the hotel, officials are