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Iraq receives fourth plane of returning refugees
Aug 31, 2008, 14:53 GMT
Baghdad - A fourth group of Iraqi refugees arrived in Baghdad on Sunday from Cairo on the Iraqi Prime Minister's official plane, semi-official al-Iraqia television has reported.
In the past month some 253 Iraqis have returned to Iraq courtesy of the prime minister's aircraft. Government spokesman Qassem Said told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that weekly flights will be arranged shortly.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated the number of displaced Iraqis to be 4.4 million after the US invasion in 2003. Some 2.2 million fled to neighbouring countries like Jordan, Syria and Egypt, while the remaining 2.2 million were internally displaced.
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