Photos show Afghans leaving lives behind as they escape Taliban control

Photos show the desperation and panic of Afghans fleeing a life under Taliban control in Kabul.

Photos emerging out of Afghanistan show heartbreaking, panicked scenes of desperate families scaling barbed wire walls in the hope of escaping their home and their country, now under control of the Taliban.

Hundreds of people descended on Hamid Karzai International Airport by any means they could, with at least seven people killed as they rushed onto the tarmac.

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Families scale the wall to Hamid Karzai International Airport as they try to flee Kabul. Picture: Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

In what authorities believe to be one of the largest passenger loads flown by a C-17 aircraft, the US air force plane evacuated 640 Afghans on board the Reach 871.

Passengers were seen crammed in next to one another, with the passenger load increasing at takeoff as hundreds of Afghans climbed into the aircraft.

US air force flies out 640 people escaping Afghanistan on board Reach 871. Picture: Defenseone.com

Hundreds of Afghans fled to the airport. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

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Families struggle to scale the boundary wall to the international airport. Picture: STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along the roadside in Kabul on August 16, 2021. Picture: AFP

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Women and children are concerned their lives will change dramatically under Taliban control. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

Crowds of people are seen from this satellite image above Kabul Airport. Picture: Maxar Technologies/AFP

A US soldier points his gun towards an Afghan passenger Kabul Airport. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

Taliban fighters sit over a vehicle on a street in Laghman province. Picture: AFP

This handout satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows a traffic jam and crowds, during the chaotic scene at Kabul Airport. Picture: Maxar Technologies/AFP

A volunteer carries an injured man on his back towards the airport. Picture: Wakil Kohsar / AFP

A Taliban fighter, right, searches the bags of people at Kabul Airport. Picture: Wakil Kohsar / AFP

Afghan men are seen crammed into a plane sitting on the tarmac. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

A woman holds her sleeping child. Picture: Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

A Taliban fighter stands guard on a street in Herat, Afghanistan, on August 14, 2021. Picture: AFP

An Afghan child walks near military uniforms as he and his family wait to leave Kabul. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

An Afghan family is seen caring for their babies on a luggage conveyor belt at Kabul Airport. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

US soldiers rest at the airport. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

Afghans crowd at the tarmac at Kabul Airport as they wait for help getting out of Afghanistan. Picture: AFP

A woman yells for her family to hurry up as displaced Afghans from the northern provinces are evacuated from a makeshift IDP camp in Share-e-Naw park to various mosques and schools on August 12, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Picture: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Afghan passengers sit as they wait to leave. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP