Children Aged 8, 13 among 7 killed in Bauchi Zakat Stampede…

 As Police Release Identities of Victims

From Paul Orude Bauchi

Nigerian Police have confirmed that two children – aged eight and 13- were among the seven persons that were killed in the Zakat collection stampede in Bauchi State on Sunday.

The identities of the victims was released the Bauchi State Police Command through the Public Relations Officer of, Ahmed Wakili, on Monday.

Wakil in a press release disclosed that five women and two female children aged eight and 13 were killed in the stampede for food.

He said the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) confirmed that two more died at the hospital among those brought for treatment while another woman she died at home.

He gave deceased as names as Aisha Usman, aged 13; Sahura Abubakar, aged 55; Aisha Ibrahim Abubakar, aged 43; Kobi Street Bauchi; and Khadija Isah, aged 8; Karofi Bauchi.

The rest are Maryam Suleiman, aged 20, of Kandahar Bauchi; Maryam Shuibu, aged 16, of Gwang Gwan Gwan Bauchi; and Hassana Saidu, aged 53, of Dutsen Tanshi Bauchi.

He stressed that “these are the number of victims confirmed dead by medical doctors. More details will be made available to the public as the command receives them.”

The stampede that claimed their lives occurred at the venue of the distribution of Zakaat by a Bauchi-based philanthropist and chairman of the AYM Shafa group of companies.