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Voices of Afghanistan: Fatima’s story

Fatima travelled from London to Kabul on a family emergency. Now she’s trapped and scared for her life in Kabul.

Fatima travelled from London to Kabul on a family emergency just before the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

Now she is trapped with her elderly mother and disabled brother, hiding in a friends house in the Afghan capital.

Afraid the Taliban will kill her, she is desperate to get out and return to the UK.

This interview was originally broadcast on 5 Live's Stephen Nolan programme and is part of the 'Voices of Afghanistan' mini-series.

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