On Thursday, August 1, 2024, a Kolbar identified as “Naser Osmani” died as a result of a fall from a height in the border area of “Nirvan” in Baneh.
According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, August 1, 2024, Naser Osmani, a 40-year-old kolbar from the city of Rabat, a suburb of Sardasht, married and with one child, lost his life due to a fall while carrying goods in the border region of “Nirvan” in Baneh.
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.
