A young merchant from the city of Baneh was killed by direct shooting from border guards in the border area of Choman in this city.
According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, border guards in the border area of Choman in Baneh intercepted the car of a merchant, resulting in the death of the car’s driver due to gunfire.
The identity of this merchant, “Moein Tofiqpour,” twenty-four years old, married, and from the village of Choman in the outskirts of Baneh, has been confirmed by Kolbarnews.
According to this report, the mentioned individual did not have any goods with him, and border guards targeted him with gunfire suspecting him of smuggling.
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.
