Following the report of attacks by bandits across villages in Idasu, Giwa LGA, contained in an earlier update, security agencies have confirmed to the Kaduna State Government that 38 people were killed across the locations attacked.

Twenty-nine of the victims have been identified, with nine remaining unidentified as of the time of this update. The 29 identified are listed as:

1. Rabi`u Wada
2. Salisu Boka
3. Alh Nura Nuhu
4. Alh Bashari Sabiu
   5 Alh Lawal Dahiru
5. Abbas Saidu
   7 Inusa Kano
   8 Malam Lawal Nagargari
6. Malam Aminu
7. Lawal Maigyad
8. Alh Mustapha
   12 Lawal Aliyu
   13 Sale Makeri
   14 Sani Lawal
   15 Auwal Umar
   16 Jamilu Hassan
   17 Badamasi Mukhtar
   18 Malam Jibril
   19 Lawal Tsawa
   20 Sule Hamisu
   21 Sadi Bala
   22 Kabiru Gesha
   23 Abubakar Sanusi
   24 Saiph Alh Abdu
   25 Haruna Musa
   26 Lawal Hudu
   27 Malam Shuaibu Habibu
   28 Malam Yahaya Habibu
   29 Abubakar Yusuf

Further details will be published as they are confirmed.

Signed

Samuel Aruwan

Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State.