Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars in Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province on 13 June and have injured a kolbar named Vali Rostami, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
The kolbar, who has been wounded with a shotgun, was taken to a medical centre in Paveh for treatment.
Rostami is from the village of Posht Kor in Salas-e Babajani county, in Kermanshah province.
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