Thousands of Displaced Citizens Return to Iraq’s Ramadi
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Thousands of displaced Iraqi families returned to the western Iraqi city of Ramadi more than three months after government forces and volunteer fighters retook it from Takfiri Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] militants.
Ramadi's mayor, Ibrahim al-Osaj, announced on Sunday that the returning families must go through security checks, adding nearly 12,000 families returned since late last month.
He further noted that the families are only allowed to return to the areas that have been cleared of the landmines and other explosives that Daesh terrorists planted before leaving.
In this regard, Osaj stated that seven neighborhoods of Ramadi are still out of bounds to civilians as they are still contaminated with mines and explosives or have been "totally ruined."
Ramadi is the capital of Iraq's western province of Anbar and is located some 110 kilometers west of the capital Baghdad.
He said local authorities fixed the water supply network in around 80 percent of the city, restored ten schools and accommodated those families that cannot use their old houses in 600 caravans.
The city was liberated earlier in December 2015 after it had fallen to the terrorist group last May.
Relatively, the northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by violence ever since Takfiri Daesh militants began a coordinated terrorist campaign in Iraqi territory in June 2014.
According to United Nations surveys, more than three million people have been forced to flee their homes in Iraq since January 2014.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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