A kolbar has been shot dead by Iranian border guards in the border region of Baneh, Kurdistan Province.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that in the early hours of 1 October, a group of kolbars came under close-range fire without warning while transporting goods in the Surkiv border area of Baneh.
One of them, 38-year-old Rebwar Mohammadzadeh from the village of Sepidar, was killed instantly.
Mohammadzadeh was the father of two children.