A British taxi driver, his wife, and two of their four children were killed in the Kabul airport attack.

       Mohammad Niazi, a 29-year-old taxi driver, travelled to Afghanistan on Tuesday in the hope to bring his family to the UK.

       His wife and their two daughters – both aged under 10 – were also killed in the attack on Thursday by ISIS militants that killed up to 180 people.

       Their two-year-old son and another daughter are being treated in hospital for their injuries.

       Mr Niazi’s brother Abdul Hamid said the family had been killed during the gunfire in the aftermath of a suicide bombing, according to the BBC.

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       Mr Niazi’s friend and flatmate, Imran, said that Mr Niazi was “very, very desperate” to bring his family to the UK and that he had travelled to Afghanistan via Azerbaijan to save them after the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

       Mr Niazi’s wife had been in the process of completing her UK visa application.

       “My heart is in pieces, there’s no words,” Imran has said.

       “His car is parked outside my door, his bedroom is opposite the living room, we see his things everyday, everything reminds us of him. We don’t know how to get over it.

       “He worked 16 or 17 hours a day as a taxi driver to give them a better life. He was so happy whenever he saved up to buy new clothes and toys. Everything was for the benefit of his kids to give them the best life ever.

       “We’ve known each other for 14 years. He was like my brother rather than my friend.”

       Imran’s family, who were also in Afghanistan, managed to get on to an evacuation flight on Friday.

       The UK’s evacuations out of Afghanistan are set to finish today, according to General Sir Nick Carter – the head of the UK armed forces.

       He said Operation Pitting –the effort to evacuate UK nationals and eligible Afghans from Kabul airport – had “gone as well as it could do in the circumstances”.

       Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said there were now “very few” civilian flights remaining.

       “We’re reaching the end of the evacuation, which will take place during the course of today,” he said.

       “And then of course it’ll be necessary to bring our troops out on the remaining aircraft.”

       Sir Nick added: “We haven’t been able to bring everybody out and that has been heartbreaking, and there have been some very challenging judgments that have had to be made on the ground.”

       The British ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, who remained at Kabul airport, tweeted that nearly 15,000 people had been evacuated but it was “time to close this phase of the operation now”.

       He added: “But we haven’t forgotten the people who still need to leave. We’ll continue to do everything we can to help them.”

       It comes as Western countries are in the process of wrapping up, or having already finished, their evacuation efforts ahead of the deadline on Tuesday.