Afghanistan live news: Taliban report multiple fatalities including children after two explosions outside Kabul airport

UK sources confirm two blasts outside Kabul airport hours after warnings of imminent terror threat

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3.59pm BST

Boris Johnson will chair an emergency meeting later this afternoon, my colleague Dan Sabbagh reports.

A No 10 spokesperson said:

The Prime Minister has been updated on the situation at the airport in Kabul and will chair a COBR later this afternoon.

3.58pm BST

One former UK soldier who was helping a mother and her five-year-old and three-year-old children evacuate told how he instructed them to get to safety this morning on reading the intel on the bomb. But he said tensions had risen sharply overnight.

They managed to inch their way forwards to within 50m of the Baron hotel [where the British army were processing relocation documentation] at about 3am but at around 4am/5am the Taliban closed both sides of the road and there was a massive crush. I instructed them to leave. The crowds were very volatile and the Taliban very twitchy.