Border guards of the regime opened fire on a group of Kolbars at the Sardasht border, resulting in the death and injury of three Kolbars.
According to Kolbarnews, on the morning of Tuesday, July 16, 2024, regime border guards ambushed and fired upon a group of Kolbars in the Qandil border heights of Sardasht, leading to the death of a 19-year-old Kolbar identified as Kian Zeini.
In the same incident, two Kolbars who are also brothers, identified as Keyvan Qaderi and Peyman Qaderi, were seriously injured.
It is reported that all three Kolbars are from the village of Resheherme, a suburb of Sardasht.
The two injured Kolbars were transferred to Hospital in Sardasht for treatment and underwent surgery.
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.
