Over 2,600 Afghan refugee families return home in single day

KABUL, July 10 (Xinhua) -- More than 2,600 Afghan refugee families, the majority of whom were from Iran, returned home in a single day on Tuesday, reported the state-run Bakhtar news agency on Wednesday.

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

All the returnees have received necessary assistance from the Afghan interim government at the crossing points, the official news agency said in its report.■