The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces today opened fire on a group of kolbars in the mountainous Qandil region of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, killing 19-year-old Kiyan Zeyni and wounding two brothers, Peyman and Keyvan Ghaderi.
IRGC forces stationed at the Kotarleh military base in Sardasht opened fire on the group at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
Zeyni is a resident of Rasheh Hormeh village in Sardasht.
According to KHRN statistics, in June, kolbars Hazhir Mahmoudpour and Arkan Balvaseh were fatally shot by Iranian border guards in the Nowsud and Marivan border areas of Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces.
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