A merchant was severely injured by direct gunfire from border guards in the HangeJal border area of Baneh.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, July 7, 2024, border guards targeted a group of Kolbars in the Hangejal border area, resulting in a merchant identified as “Ribwar Rashidi” being shot in the leg and severely injured.
Due to the severity of his injuries, the merchant was transferred to the hospital.
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 kolbars in the Kurdish border region.
