Canada plans to send military aircraft back into Afghanistan to evacuate Canada-connected Afghans: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says Canada plans to send military aircraft back into Afghanistan to evacuate Canada-connected Afghans.

But Trudeau says the airport in the capital, Kabul, must be secured to combat the chaos that currently exists there.

Trudeau says Canadian military aircraft are on standby in Kuwait, waiting until the Kabul airport can be secured so they can extract Afghan citizens who helped the Canadian mission there.

Afghans have been flocking to the Kabul airport, desperately trying to get out of the country.

Several people are reported to have been killed as they frantically tried to get into departing aircraft on the tarmac.