Story highlights Drone footage shows Syrian town of Kobani lying in dusty ruin

But a bakery and schools have opened as families begin to come back

(CNN) They called it Kobanigrad, the destruction was so complete. Months of coalition airstrikes and ISIS bombing flattening some parts of the town, leaving others uninhabitable. The question so many asked during the fighting was what would the spoils of victory be?

Now, however, Kobani is trying to rebuild again, the sheer extent of the task ahead revealed by drone footage shot by cameraman Gabriel Chaim.

Idriss Nassan, a spokesman for the Syrian Kurds, who again control the town, said by telephone: "It is 70 percent destroyed. The problem is that we do not have enough machinery to remove the debris or materials with which to rebuild. The cost will be billions."

But he says that, despite the damage, civilians are starting to come home in increasing numbers. "The most that have returned in one week is 6,000, and we now have 60,000 civilians in the city and countryside around it."

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