46 Afghans deported

BERLIN: German authorities say they have deported 46 Afghans, whose asylum requests were rejected, to their homeland.

The flight from Munich arrived yesterday in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Interior Ministry spokesperson Eleonore Petermann said the 46, all men, were sent back by authorities in 11 of Germany’s 16 states. She said 15 of them had committed criminal offences of varying seriousness.

News agency dpa reported that German authorities have sent 349 people back to Afghanistan since December 2016.

Flights were interrupted for a while after a bomb attack partially destroyed the German Embassy in Kabul last year, and then were limited to a smaller group, including those with criminal records. – AP