A 26-year-old Kolbar from Saqqez was shot and severely injured by the Sartazin Baneh border regiment forces.
According to Kolbarnews, on the night of Tuesday, June 11, 2024, the Kolbar was shot directly by border regiment forces in the Sartazin Baneh border heights and was severely injured.
The identity of the injured Kolbar has been confirmed as “Arman Hosseini,” a 26-year-old from Saqqez.
It is also worth mentioning that the Kolbar has been transferred to Tabriz for medical 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.