Two young kolbars, were severely injured by border guard gunfire at the HangeJal border area of Baneh.
According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Sunday, April 27, 2025, in the HangeJal border region of Baneh, two kolbars were seriously wounded after direct fire by border forces. The incident occurred when border guards opened fire on a group of Kolbars.
The injured individuals have been identified as 22-year-old Ako Sharifi from the village of Abbasabad and 25-year-old Shwaneh Alipour. Both come from low-income families and had turned to Kolbari as a means of livelihood.
According to statistics recorded by Kolbarnews, in the year 1403, a total of 183 Kolbars were killed or injured in the border areas and inter-road routes of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces due to factors such as direct shooting by regime military forces, avalanches and hypothermia, landmine explosions, falls from mountains and heights, and other incidents.Out of this total, 52 Kolbars (28%) were killed, and 131 Kolbars (72%) were injured. Among the 183 Kolbars who were killed or injured in 1403, 143 cases (78%) resulted from direct shootings by regime military forces.Additionally, among the 183 kulbars affected, 11 (6%) were child Kolbars under the age of 18. One of these cases resulted in the death of a child Kolbar due to hypothermia.
