Due to heavy snowfall and a severe snowstorm in the border region of Oshnavieh, at least four Kurdish merchant have gone missing, and their fate remains unknown.
According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Thursday, October 24, 2024, snowfall and a snowstorm struck the “Kileh Shin” highlands along the Oshnavieh border, leading to the disappearance of at least four Kurdish merchant working in this area. Efforts to locate them have so far been unsuccessful.
Local volunteers, along with groups of mountaineers and off-road drivers, are conducting search efforts in the region, but no results have been achieved yet.
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.
