Over 2,600 Afghan refugee families returned home in a single day

A queue of Afghan refugees waiting at a border crossing, with barbed wire in the foreground and security personnel present.

KABUL – More than 2,600 Afghan refugee families, the majority of whom were from Iran, returned home in a single day on Tuesday, it was reported yesterday.

A total of 2,604 Afghan refugee families returned to Afghanistan on Tuesday, with 98 families coming from neighbouring Pakistan, while 2,506 families returned from Iran, according to the state-owned media outlet.

All the returnees received necessary assistance from the Afghan interim government, at the crossing points, the official news agency said in its report.– NNN-BNA  

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