Kolbarnews reports, based on statistics recorded by its Statistical Center, that at least 270 kolbars were killed or injured in the first half of 2024.
According to Kolbarnews statistics, in the first six months of 2024, a total of 270 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-road routes of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by regime military forces, avalanches and frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other incidents.
- 34 kolbars (13%) were killed and 236 kolbars (87%) were injured.
- There was a 218% increase in kolbars killed and injured compared to the first half of 2023.
- Out of the 270 kolbars killed and injured in the first half of 2024, a total of 222 cases (82%) were due to direct shooting or beatings by regime military forces.
- Of the 270 kolbars killed and injured in the first half of 2024 in the Kurdish border region, 20 were children under the age of 18.
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