(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) IRBIL, June 4 (KUNA) -- Yazidi families from the district of Sinjar, northern Iraq, have returned home after four years of displacement, said the media department of the Iraqi security Tuesday.
A statement by the department revealed that 13 Yazidi families, consisting of 70 individuals, have returned to Sinjar after fleeing from the so-called Islamic State (IS) in 2014.
IS drove thousands of Yazidis from Sinjar with many of them fleeing to various cities in Iraq's Kurdistan region and nearby Syria.
According to latest statistics by the Kurdistan government, recognized by the UN, there were around 550,000 Yazidis in Iraq with 360,000 escaping IS terror. Some 1,293 people were killed in the initial attacks carried by the group.
The statistics revealed around 80 mass graves were discovered in Sinjar while IS managed to destroy 68 shrines belonging to the Yazidis.
Some 100,000 Yazidis have immigrated, indicated the Kurdistan government while 6,417 people were abducted, the whereabouts of 2,941 was still unknown.
Despite the IS defeat, millions of Iraqis are still displaced with the Iraqi government still have its hands full trying to bring people back to their homes. (end)
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