A merchant from the city of Marivan, was severely injured by direct gunfire from border guard forces. His general condition has been reported as concerning.
According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Monday, May 27, 2024, border guard forces in Marivan targeted a merchant’s car near the “Animal Feed Factory (Dasht Bilow)” on suspicion of smuggling goods and severely injured him.
The identity of this merchant is Mohammad Khosravi from the village of Bashmaq, a suburb of Marivan.
According to the report, Mohammad Khosravi was shot in the spine and is currently hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Kosar Hospital in Sanandaj. Mohammad Khosravi is married and has a one-year-old child.
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.
