As a result of direct fire from border guards in the Nowsud border area, one Kolbar was killed and six others were injured.
According to Kolbarnews, on the early morning of Monday, July 8, 2024, direct fire from regime border guards in the Nowsud border area resulted in the death of Ayoub Mohammadi, a Kolbar from Salas Babajani. At least six other Kolbars were injured.
The injured Kolbars have been identified as Masih Moradi, Ayoub Moradi, Mehdi Besharati, Mehran Abdi, Peyman Vaisi, and Sami’ Zarei, all from the village of Ziran in the Kolashi district of Javanrud.
It is worth noting that Ayoub Mohammadi passed away due to the severity of his injuries after being transferred to Qods Hospital in Paveh. The six other injured Kolbars are receiving treatment in the hospital’s care unit.
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.
