Iranian border forces have shot dead a kolbar and wounded another in separate incidents on the borders of Baneh in Kurdistan Province and Nowsud in Kermanshah Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
At dawn on 25 September, border forces opened fire at close range without warning on a group of kolbars in the Belasan border area of Baneh, killing 47-year-old kolbar Ghassem Azizi, a father of two from the city.
On the evening of 23 September, two days earlier, border forces opened fire without warning on another group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area, wounding Karvan Almasi from Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province.
Almasi sustained a broken arm after being struck by a Kalashnikov bullet and is reported to be in poor health.