A pregnant California woman who was left behind in Afghanistan has safely escaped from the country, a Republican congressman said Friday.
The woman, identified only as Nasria in recent media reports,"braved beatings and harassment by the Taliban" while she remained there, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa said, according to FOX 5 in San Diego.Issa has been among the lawmakers and others who have been working to evacuate stranded Americans from Afghanistan since the country fell to the Taliban last month following President Biden’s withdrawal of U.S.
Nasria, 25, a California resident, has left Afghanistan, according to U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. "It was so hard to get on a flight," she told Voice of America."There were a couple of days where we had to sleep on streets. People were literally stepping over people. That’s how bad it was."A statement from Issa’s office said the congressman had"successfully facilitated" Nasria’s departure from Afghanistan, FOX 5 reported, but the details were unclear and it wasn’t immediately known how Nasria left or where her most immediate destination was.
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