Another 2,857 illegal immigrants have returned to their homeland that included 678 men, 642 women and 1,390 children, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home Department said in a report issued on Sunday.

The report said that 287 illegal persons were also deported and another 678 families entered Afghanistan through Torkham, the report said.

With this, a total of 15,938 families have returned to Afghanistan since September 17 which included 57,285 men, 44,460 women and 11,230 children, the report said. So far, 200,200,975 illegal persons have been sent back to their homeland, according to the Home Department.