Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban | Refugees
On 15 August 2021, 21-year-old Sam Pordale and his father found themselves part of a huge, panicked crowd of people all trying to get to Kabul airport and away from the Taliban militants who, just hours earlier, had taken control of Afghanistan’s capital city. Between the crowd and the entrance to the airport, Pordale could…