raaknews-Afghan news agency Ariana reported on Thursday that Zaki Anwari, a 19-year-old footballer on the Afghan national team, was confirmed as one of the individuals who fell from the C-17 transporting individuals fleeing Kabul after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital.
Zaki Anwari, a 19 year old Afghan who played in the national junior football team died as he fell from a US military plane, according to this post from the Afghan Sports Society. A young man with much promise and talent. What a tragic way to die
"It is with great sadness that Zaki Anwari, one of the players of the national junior football team of the country, died in a bad accident," the group wrote in a social media post. "The late Anwari, among hundreds of young people who wanted to leave the country, fell down in an accident from the air."
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