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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

Home Office sent family back to Afghanistan a week before Kabul fell

Jim Huylebroek/Save The Children

The Home Office sent an asylum-seeking family back to Afghanistan a week before the fall of Kabul, leaving them “in danger” and afraid to leave their home.

Ministers have been accused of making an “unforgiveable mistake” after it emerged that a family of five – with children aged 15, nine and five – were returned to the Afghan capital under the UK’s voluntary returns scheme days before the Taliban takeover.

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