One killed by gunfire amid chaotic evacuations at Kabul airport

Troops at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Sgt. Isaiah Campbell/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

Gunfire at one of the gates to Kabul’s international airport has killed at least one Afghan soldier, German officials said, in the latest chaos to engulf Western efforts to evacuate people fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country.

The shooting came as the Taliban sent fighters north of the capital to eliminate pockets of armed resistance to their lightning takeover earlier this month.