According to Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne threat of a terrorist attack near Kabul's airport is very high, he also advised Australian nationals and those with a visa to leave the area as soon as possible.

For more than a week, Australia has been evacuating its nationals and visa holders from Kabul airport, where Canberra had advised them to travel to be ready for transportation. Late on Wednesday, Australia revised its advice to people in the region, citing increased fears of an attack.

"There is an ongoing and very high threat of a terrorist attack," Payne told reporters in Canberra. The warning heightens the risk that scores of Afghans holding visas for Australia could be left behind as Canberra readies to end its evacuation programme. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has previously said Australia will unlikely be able to evacuate everyone, declined to comment on whether Australia would continue flights up to the Aug 31 deadline the Taliban insists must be adhered to.

Morrison said Australia has now evacuated about 4,000 people out of Afghanistan after another 1,200 people were flown out overnight. Many of these remain in the United Arab Emirates, Morrison said, while 639 have been evacuated to Australia.

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