Flight carrying Americans from Kabul departs for US

DUBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A group of American citizens and lawful permanent residents evacuated to the United Arab Emirates from Afghanistan flew out of the Gulf state bound for the United States on Thursday, the country’s foreign ministry said, after being temporarily held up for vetting.

The Department of Homeland Security had denied U.S. landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 evacuees, said organisers of that earlier flight -- one of several that emerged from ad hoc networks that formed to bolster last month’s chaotic evacuation operation from Afghanistan.

The State Department had said that U.S. officials were working to verify the accuracy of the list of passengers that had been evacuated to the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.

It did not say whether all the passengers had flown out.