A Kolbar from Sarpol-e Zahab county was wounded by the direct shooting of border forces in the border area of HangeJal in Baneh.
According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, April 18, 2024, border forces in the HangeJal border area in Baneh opened fire on a group of Kolbars with military weapons (G3), resulting in one Kolbar being wounded. The wounded Kolbar, identified as Keyvan Darabi, a twenty-year-old from Sarpol-e Zahab county, was transferred to a hospital in Saqqez for treatment, with injuries to the leg, according to the report.
According to the statistics recorded in Kolbarnews in the year 1402, a total of 444 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-provincial routes between West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by regime military forces, avalanches, frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other causes. Out of this total number, 44 Kolbars were killed, equivalent to 10%, and 400 Kolbars were injured, equivalent to 90%. Out of the total 444 Kolbars killed or injured in the year 1402, a total of 373 cases, equivalent to 84%, were due to direct shooting by military forces.
Additionally, out of the total 444 Kolbars killed or injured in the border strip of Kurdistan in the year 1402, 37 of them are children under 18 years old.
In the year 1402, we witnessed a 90% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbars in the border strip of Kurdistan.
