Washington: US Embassy in Kabul urged its citizens on Friday to immediately leave the gates around Kabul’s airport, where a suicide bomber this week targeted crowds trying to flee Taliban rule.

As a part of security alert the US Embassy said US citizens who are at the Abbey gate, East gate, North gate or the New Ministry of Interior gate now should leave immediately. Pentagon said that the high risk Kabul airlift operation to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies still faced specific, credible threats.

US Embassy said due to security threats at the Kabul airport, we continue to advise US citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates. The alert gave no further details on what the security threats might be, but it followed Thursday’s attack that killed scores of people including 13 US servicemen.