GROZNY. Aug 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Construction of a new temporary housing center for the refugees returning to Chechnya is nearing completion in Grozny.
"Construction of a new temporary housing center with a capacity of 330 persons for the refugees who left Chechnya after the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation is nearing completion in Grozny," a spokesman for the Chechen Construction Ministry told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
Several more centers of this kind will be built in various Chechen localities before the end of the year, the spokesman said.
"They are expected to house the refugees who are currently staying in Ingushetia but planning to return home," he stressed.
According to the spokesman, over 11,000 Chechen refugees are living in temporary housing centers in Ingushetia. Over 7,500 people are living in three camps in the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, about 2,000 in the town of Karabulak and over 1,700 in the village of Sleptsovskaya.
"Seventeen temporary housing centers are already operational in Chechnya. Twenty-one buildings house about 14,200 people," he said.