Pictured: Mohammad Niazi, 29, the London cabbie killed in Kabul blast

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This is the first picture of a London taxi driver killed in the Kabul airport suicide bombing.

Mohammad Niazi, 29, had returned to Afghanistan on Tuesday to escort his family, including his wife and four children, back to the UK.

Tragically his wife and two daughters, both under 10, perished in the same blast that killed around 170 people including 13 US soldiers.

The BBC spoke to Mohammad’s brother who confirmed they have not been able to locate his eldest daughter and youngest child.

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A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the August 26 twin suicide bombs, which killed scores of people
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He said: “I saw some small children in the river, it was so bad, it was doomsday for us.”

Mohammed worked as a driver in Aldershot and has lived in the UK since 2004 after moving for a better life and would send money back to his family.

His friend, Imran Niazi, said Mohammad was “desperate” to help his family and believed he was “one of the lucky ones” when he managed to get a ticket to fly out.

“He was that excited to help bring his family home,” Imran told Sky News.

“He was very, very desperate. To be that desperate to travel to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan to Kabul... it’s almost three days/four days journey.

“You can imagine, to go past all those Taliban checkpoints, you can tell how desperate he was.”

Imran says Mohammad told him he would phone him when he got to Afghanistan but he never did.

“My heart is in pieces, there’s no words,” he added.

The other British victim was named as Musa Papal by his family as the second British victim of the Kabul airport suicide bombing.

British passport holder Papal, 60, left his home in North London in May to visit family in Kandahar and was killed in the airport blast.

His grandson is still missing after the blast. His family told Sky News that if they knew what would happen to him they would never of let him leave the UK. It was not confirmed if Mr Niazi and Mr Papal were the UK nationals referred to by the Foreign Office.

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