A Kolbar from the city of Sardasht was severely injured by direct shooting from border guards in the “Kani Zard” border area of this city.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, June 30, 2024, border guards in the “Kani Zard” border area of Sardasht targeted a group of Kolbars, resulting in one Kolbar being severely injured.
The injured Kolbar has been identified as Ebrahim Ebrahimi, approximately 27 years old, from the village of Pashbard and residing in Nalas, a district of Sardasht.
According to the report, he sustained an injury to his right leg and was transferred to medical centers 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.
