A kolbar, identified as 40-year-old Ebrahim Abdollahi from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, has been critically injured after a landmine explosion in the border areas of Nowsud, also in Kermanshah Province.

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the incident took place in the early hours of 10 November in the Tak Derakht border area of Nowsud while Abdollahi was engaged in kolbari.

The explosion severed Abdollahi’s right leg at the ankle. His condition has been reported as critical.