Video of bloodied Australian man at Kabul Airport, and his Adelaide’s wife emotional plea to rescue him

The wife of a South Australian citizen – seen injured trying to flee the Taliban in a viral video – says she can’t find anyone from the federal government to help them.

The wife of a man who shared a confronting video of being caught up at Kabul airport covered in blood has desperately urged the government to bring him home.

Following two suicide bombings at Kabul Airport on Thursday, the Salisbury East woman, whom The Advertiser will not name for security reasons, is begging for help from the Australian government to get the father of her three children home to Adelaide.

“I couldn’t sleep for two nights, my kids are very worried and my daughter is crying for her father,” the woman told The Advertiser.

“I tried to find somebody to stand by me, from the Australian government, but I couldn’t find anybody to help me.”

Both her and her husband are Australian citizens.

“He is hiding somewhere and I don’t know how long he can hide himself,” she said.

“The Taliban is searching house to houses and I’m worried about his safety.”

The video was posted to social media on Thursday, featuring the man, with blood dripping down his face, saying he had been struck by Taliban officials.

“See this happened to me,” he says in the video. “I was crossing the airport … They hit me … I’m an Australian citizen.”

A woman’s scream was heard among the chaos before gunshots were fired and the video stopped.

She wants her husband home to be with their son, 18, and two daughters, 15 and 11.

A screenshot from the video taken at Kabul Airport. Picture: SBS News

The woman said she feared for her husband’s safety, being a Hazara man and Australian citizen.

“My husband is Hazara and he is an Australian citizen, so they are looking for these people to kill to show to the world they have power and they can kill easily anyone they want to,” the man’s wife said.

“The Taliban don’t know human rights, they just know fighting and killing innocent people, especially Hazara people.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said the scenes in Kabul were distressing.

“We have worked very closely with their advocates, with their families,” she said.

“Using countless telephone calls, countless direct contacts to try to bring them to points where they have been able to access Hamid Karzai International Airport in the days before we came to the point we’re at today.”

President of Afghan Association South Australia Samandar Sediqi said the attack on the airport made escaping the danger zone monumentally harder.

“For the civilians, for the Afghan people, there is no difference between the Taliban and ISIS,” he said.

“The saddest news is about the explosion. They desperately left their relatives, their homes where they were living and they had no hope for living, except to escape their country.”

He said those who took out the attacks on the civilians and military personnel were “disgusting” and “Afghan people would not forgive and not forget”.

Mr Sediqi served with the British Navy for nine years as an interpreter and understood the danger those who worked with foreign forces, or lived overseas, are in.

“Interpreters are in high risk, and their families,” he said.

“I’m one of the interpreters, I know my family is in danger and my community of interpreters and their family.”

He said those fleeing villages, towns and cities to journey towards the airport have given their homes and belongings to neighbours staying behind, something that Mr Sediqi knows personally and is “very proud” of.

Mr Sediqi said the SA division of the Afghan Association holds two meetings per week either in person or online, where more than 20 people gather to share news and offer support to each other about the developing situation.

“To keep that connection, to share information and share information from Kabul with who’s family is in danger,’ he said.

He said they often pose questions about “how can we help each other? how can we help the new arrivals?” entering Australia after fleeing.

Speaking to the media on Friday, Premier Steven Marshall said the government will “most likely” continue to take repatriation flights from Afghanistan.

“We wanted to play our part in bringing people out of that devastating situation in Afghanistan,” Mr Marshall said.

“We will continue to offer every assistance we can here in South Australia.”

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 4000 people have been evacuated from Kabul on rescue flights into Australia and New Zealand over the past eight days. About 100 arrived in Adelaide on Wednesday morning.

Originally published as Video of bloodied Australian man at Kabul Airport, and his Adelaide’s wife emotional plea to rescue him