Two Kurdish Kolbar (porters) Freeze to Death on Iranian Border Mountains
09 March 2018 12:08
Hengaw: Reports indicate that a couple of Kurdish Kolbars (porters) froze to death on the borders of Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan and their bodies were found on Saturday.
According to Hengaw, an independent Human Rights Watch, one of the frozen porters was a 60-year-old Kolbar from Mahabad and the younger porter was from Piranshar, two Kurdish cities in Iranian Kurdistan. The other victims are identified as Khzir Abdullahi and Mohammed Paimazd.
According to the statistics reported by Hangaw at least 14 Kurdish porters have frozen to death on the Iranian borders since 2017.
