The first rescue mission carrying Afghan evacuees has landed safely in the UK after escaping the Taliban – as thousands remain trapped in Kabul and fearing for their lives.

The RAF plane, which also carried stranded Brits, touched down in Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at about 11pm on Tuesday.

People were pictured peering through the plane windows and giving photographers on the tarmac below a thumbs-ups before disembarking the Voyager A330 aircraft.

British troops are racing to evacuate around 6,000 people from Afghanistan via the capital Kabul, which fell to the Taliban on Sunday.

The first flight of British nationals and embassy staff arrived at the base on Sunday night, and more carrying Afghan interpreters and other eligible locals are expected in the coming days.

It comes after horrifying scenes on Monday as crowds desperate to flee the Taliban were filmed chasing down jets along the runway and clinging onto the wheels of a US military plane.

An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’
A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women:

IJOBA11:
IS PLEASED

Mikecold:
Reno and ffk are fools
Talk here talk there
You despise western values of openness for all adult yet you are benefitting from their values

You welcome peadophiles who rape little girls and marrying off for constant bleeping and trauma