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A former British soldier has been arrested by the Taliban while attempting to evacuate 400 Afghans.

Ben Slater, 37, was thrown in prison on Thursday morning and questioned regarding members of his 50 staff, most of whom are single women and had been staying in hotel rooms near a border checkpoint.

The former member of the Royal Military Police runs a chain of NGOs in Afghanistan, and had been attempting to evacuate his staff over a land border after failing to secure spots for them and their families on the British airlift from Kabul.

However, his mission failed after a coach carrying the staff was turned away at a land border. It is not clear which country the coach was attempting to cross int