Another kolbar has been severely injured by direct fire from border forces at the Baneh border.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, May 19, 2024, border forces targeted a group of kolbars at the “Sartazin” border in Baneh, resulting in two kolbars being severely injured in the legs.
One of the injured kolbars has been identified as Pouya Abdi, a 23-year-old from Sardasht.
In an earlier report, Kolbarnews identified the other injured kolbar as Mohammad Dehghani, approximately 35 years old, from Divandarreh.
Both injured kolbars have been transferred to medical centers for treatment.
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 and 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.
