Four US military planes carrying more than 300 Egyptian refugees from Libya for Cairo on Sunday, the US military bringing the number repatriated to more than 600 in two days.
Last of 4 Department of Defence C-130 flights 2day carrying Egyptians home from Tunisia has departed Djerba airport in Tunisia.
He added that the aircraft carried 328 passengers on Sunday, making a total of 640 over the past two days.
The US aircraft were part of an international effort to deliver refugees from unrest in Libya. The same operation repatriated 312 Egyptians overnight.
European countries and the United States on Thursday began airlifting more than 40,000 Egyptians who had fled Libya for Tunisia, to avoid chaos and epidemics spreading at makeshift camps on the border.
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