A kolbar from Rabat, Sardasht, was severely injured by direct gunfire from border guards at the Baneh border area.
According to Kolbarnews, on Friday, August 30, 2024, border guards at the Baneh border targeted a vehicle carrying Kolbars, severely injuring one of them.
The identity of the injured Kolbar, Khalil Chalabi, a resident of Rabt, Sardasht, has been confirmed by Kolbarnews.
The report indicates that Chalabi sustained serious injuries to his back and underwent surgery in a hospital in Tehran. It is also noted that his condition is critical, with the bullet having hit close to his heart.
According to statistics recorded by Kolbarnews, 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 the regime’s military forces, avalanches and frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other incidents. Out of this number, a total of 34 Kolbars (13%) were killed and 236 Kolbars (87%) were injured.Of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024, a total of 222 cases (82%) were due to direct shooting or beatings by the regime’s military forces.Additionally, of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024 in the Kurdish border region, 20 of them were children under the age of 18.Comparing the statistics of the first six months of 2024 with the same period in 2023, we have witnessed a 218% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbarn in the Kurdish border region.
