A Kolbar was severely injured due to direct gunfire from regime forces at the Nowsud border.
According to Kolbarnews, in the early hours of Wednesday, December 11, 2024, regime forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the Nowsud border area. As a result, one Kolbar identified as Mosaeb Sabzevari, a married man from the village of Qeshlaq Shahou in Ravansar County, sustained critical injuries to his face and head.
Reports indicate that the injured Kolbar is currently hospitalized in the ICU of Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah, with a consciousness level of 3.
According to registered statistics from Kolbarnews, in the first six months of 1403, a total of 142 Kolbars in border areas and interroad routes of the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah were killed or injured due to various factors such as direct shooting by military forces, avalanches, frostbite, stepping on landmines, falling from heights, and other incidents. Of these, a total of 36 Kolbars (25%) were killed, and 106 Kolbars (75%) were injured. Among the 142 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first half of 2024, 124 cases (87%) were due to direct shooting or beating by military forces. Furthermore, 10 of these Kolbars were children under the age of 18. Compared to the same period in 2023, there has been a 67% increase in the number of Kolbars killed and injured along the Kurdish border.
