Border guards stationed in Qaleh Nowdesheh targeted a vehicle carrying Kolbars, injuring one of them.
According to Kolbarnews, early Sunday morning, July 14, 2024, border guards stationed in Qaleh Nowdesheh opened fire on a vehicle carrying Kolbars, resulting in one Kolbar being seriously injured.
The identity of the injured Kolbar, “Mohammad Dari” from the village of “Dari” in Marivan, has been confirmed by Kolbarnews.
According to an eyewitness, this Kolbar was severely injured in the lower back by a bullet and was transported to medical facilities for treatment.
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 kolbars in the Kurdish border region.
