The scenes go around the world: a desperate father hands his baby over to US soldiers on a barbed wire fence. Apparently because it was sick. The soldiers took the infant to a hospital.
A baby who was handed over to US soldiers over a wall with barbed wire at the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul is back with his father after receiving medical treatment. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby spoke on Friday about the incident, which was videotaped and aroused much compassion.
“The parent asked the Marines to take care of the baby because the baby was sick,” Kirby said. The US soldier pulled the toddler over the wall and brought it to a Norwegian hospital on the airport premises. The video shows the soldier handing the baby to another soldier.
The child is back with the father
“They treated the child and returned the child to his father,” Kirby said. He spoke of an “act of compassion” by the US soldiers. The US Department of Defense spokesman could not say where the baby and his father are now. “I don’t know where you are now.” He also does not know whether the father is a possible Afghan local employee who is applying for a special visa for the USA.
Dramatic scenes are currently taking place at Kabul airport: after the radical Islamic Taliban came to power, Afghans are desperately trying to get into the airport and on board evacuation planes. Many Afghan local forces in the Western troops during the 20-year conflict fear acts of revenge by the Taliban.
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