BREAKING: UK minister says the terrorist threat to the evacuation effort at Kabul airport and the handling centres, processing desperate people trying to flee, is "very imminent, very credible, very lethal"
Armed Forces Minister @JSHeappey looks distraught, having to ask desperate Afghans to avoid the airport, their best chance of escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. But he tells @SkyNews "In all good conscience... we had to share that very, very real threat with people in Kabul"
Offering more detail on the specific threat, @JSHeappey said: "Intelligence over the course of the week has become ever more certain around the highly credible, imminent, lethal attack onto the airport or the handling centres being used by western forces."
The Armed Forces Minister added: "I'm aware that that causes real desperation for many of the people who are yet to be brought out of the country. But we are not being overly cautious. The threat, whilst I can’t give you the detail, is very imminent, very credible, very lethal."
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