British businessman salutes German military who helped him flee Kabul

A British businessman described how he was in tears when the German military helped him escape Kabul after a harrowing few days stranded at the airport with the Taliban on one side, U.S. troops on the other and looters marauding through the terminal.

Soon after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday, the businessman, who declined to be named for security reasons, fled to the airport despite gridlocked streets, where he filmed video on his phone showing tanks standing still in queues behind cars.

He was told to go to the part of the terminal where U.S. and German troops were.

"It took me a good few hours to get myself close to the gate and shout out that I am British and please get me out of here," he said soon after his arrival at Frankfurt airport in Germany.