Hundreds of Iraqis who were stranded at the border between Belarus and Poland while seeking to enter the European Union voluntarily returned home Thursday.
A plane carrying some of them landed at Erbil International Airport.
In a statement earlier, the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said a plane that would take off from Belarus with Iraqi migrants would arrive in Erbil this evening.
Around 20,000 people trying to enter Europe via Belarus were stranded for more than a month, and more than 460 people had registered to return and the plane would carry 430 people from Iraq and the KRG, it added.
Meanwhile, another 432 Iraqi citizens were brought to Baghdad from Belarus by Iraqi Airways as a part of a repatriation operation organized by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.
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