Several schoolchildren and adult relatives, all Afghan refugees newly resettled in California, ended up stranded in Afghanistan after traveling back to their homeland over the summer to visit loved ones, San Diego-area school officials said on Wednesday.

According to reports, 6 families consisting of about 16 adults and 24 students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon were among thousands clamoring to leave Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover as U.S. troops began pulling out, according to district officials.  Michael Serban, head of the district's Family & Community Engagement program for immigrant students, said one of the six stranded families - comprising four students, a 2-year-old child and two adults - had since made it out and returned safely to El Cajon. The fate of the five other families was not immediately known, he said.

In ten days since the Taliban took control of Afghan, the U.S. and its allies have mounted one of the biggest air evacuations ever, bringing out more than 88,000 people. The operation is due to end next Tuesday but is expected to shift its focus in the final two days to military personnel from civilians.

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