Shops close, security guards flee in Afghan capital

Kabul: Kabul's streets were deserted early on Monday, a day after Taliban insurgents took over the Afghanistan capital without a fight, but the airport was jammed with hundreds of civilians trying to flee.

Video posted social media showed hundreds of people scampering with their luggage toward the safety of the airport terminal with the sound of gunfire breaking out. US troops deployed at the airport to safeguard the evacuation of U.S. troops had fired in the air to deter hundreds of civilians running onto the tarmac to try to board a plane.