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Young Afghan Girl Celebrates Freedom From Taliban By Joyfully Skipping Across The Tarmac After Evacuation Flight Landed Safely In Belgium


A young Afghan girl was photographed joyfully skipping across a runway after being safely evacuated from Kabul.

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The girl was seen to be seemingly jumping for joy when she and her family arrived at Melsbroek military airbase outside Brussels, Belgium.

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The touching photograph was taken by Reuters photographer Johanna Geron at the base which is next to Belgium’s busiest airport, Brussels Airport.

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The picture was taken on Wednesday, and according to local media reports, the plane had arrived in Belgium from Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Eurocrat and former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt tweeted the heartwarming photo with a caption:’This is what happens when you protect refugees. Welcome to Belgium, little girl!’

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At the time of this writing, the tweet has already been liked more than 25,000 times and received almost 1,000 comments.

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The young girl and her family were among a group of about 1,400 people who Belgium evacuated from Kabul after the Taliban forces took over Afghanistan when the US decided to withdraw its troops in the country.

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This is not the only moving photo that was taken from Afghans who escaped the Taliban rule.

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A laughing Afghan lady has also been photographed at a US-run Rota airbase in southern Spain, after being safely evacuated from Kabul airport.

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Several British officials have also been pictured with refugees, who are happy to have made it to the UK.

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UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel was also photographed talking to an Afghan mother and her children at Heathrow Airport.

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UK’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid was also pictured welcoming a family that had just arrived in Britain. He, later on, tweeted their meeting with a caption: ‘welcome to Britain’.

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