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August 20, 2021

Afghan Youth Soccer Player Zaki Anwari Died in Fall from U.S. Plane Evacuating Kabul Airport
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Afghanistan's sports federation has identified one of at least two
people who fell to their deaths from a U.S. military plane as it hastily
evacuated Kabul's airport on Monday. Seventeen-year-old Zaki Anwari was
a member of Afghanistan's national youth soccer team. He was among
dozens of people filmed running alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 plane as
it sped down a runway - some of them clinging to the plane's sides and
landing gear.


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