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God's Protection: Afghan's baby who was handed over to a US soldier at Kabul airport reunite with Fa

Sohail Ahmadi's parents passed him to an American serviceman on 19 August, fearing he would otherwise be crushed in the crowds of people trying to leave the country after the Taliban's takeover.

A baby who went missing after being handed to a soldier over the Kabul airport wall has been found and reunited with his family.


Sohail Ahmadi's parents - Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya - passed him to a US serviceman on 19 August, fearing he would otherwise be crushed in the crowds of people trying to leave the country after the Taliban takeover.


It took them more than half an hour to get to the other side of the airport fence - but when they did, their two-month-old son was nowhere to be found.

They spent days searching for him and were told he might have been evacuated by himself.


Mr Ahmadi, who had worked as a security guard at the American embassy, was put on an evacuation flight to Qatar with his wife and four other children, eventually landing in the US.


Baby found in Kabul


In November Sohail was finally located in Kabul, in the care of a 29-year-old taxi driver named Hamid Safi who had found him at the airport and took him home to raise as his own.

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