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More than 5,000 displaced families have returned to the city of Sirte, in north-central Libya, nearly two months after the city was recaptured from the so-called Islamic State militant group. Displaced families actually began returning to Sirte on 5 February.
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“Some 5,325 families have recently returned to eight districts of the city,” a local media officer said on Facebook on Wednesday. Abdul Wahab Al-Haddad said in earlier remarks to Anadolu that the return of the displaced families will take place in six stages.
The Libyan National Accord government retook the city from Daesh in December last year.