9-Month-Old From Afghanistan Dies After Being Evacuated to the U.S.

Customs and Border Protection said the child suffered a medical emergency during transit, and emergency personnel met the plane when it landed at 9:16 p.m., the PPD spokesperson told PEOPLE. The infant and her father were rushed to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and she was pronounced dead at 10:10 p.m., per CBS.

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“Our thoughts and prayers are with the parents and family,” Mitchell toldABC News.

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The child’s death marks the first of an evacuee from Kabul on U.S. soil. According to theBBC,the Biden administration said it has evacuated about 124,000 people from the Afghan capital since the Taliban took control on Aug. 14.

At the height of the rescue mission, U.S. military planes were said to be taking off from Kabul every 39 minutes.

About 3,654 evacuees from Afghanistan arrived in Philadelphia between Aug. 28 and Sept. 1, CBS reported.

source: people.com