Afghanistan: UK soldiers reduced to tears as British Army deals with horrors facing Afghan children

A soldier involved in the evacuations of British citizens and others from Kabul has spoken of the horror facing children desperate to escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

He revealed that medics working for the British Army had been faced with paediatric cardiac arrests every other day.

“The Taliban have been firing gunshots into the crowds for crowd control and the kids have suffered gunshot wounds,” the soldier, who asked to speak anonymously, told ITV News.

Describing the lengths to which people are desperately going to in a bid to try and get their children out of Afghanistan, he described British troops finding babies thrown over the fence, who had sadly not survived.

“Children are also being dumped at the gate in the hope that they will be picked up.”

Soldiers have been reduced to tears by the psychological impact which has been “immense”, he said.

He talked of “thousands at the gates” with fears among the military about “what will happen when they realise we have gone”.