The impact described here rests on roster of 128 identified victims. Within this roster, losses fall across multiple branches (with official ID numbers recorded for most victims), and the pattern of kin-clustered fatalities demonstrates community-level harm. The demographic profile shows a systematic strike on the tribe’s continuity. Children and adolescents account for over a third of all deaths: seven infants and toddlers aged 0–2 (approximately 5.5% of the total), twenty-one children aged 3–12 (16.4%), and fourteen teenagers aged 13–17 (10.9%). The removal of these forty-two minors (32.8%) erases a material share of the tribe’s immediate future; pupils, apprentices, and the next generation of the tribe's caregivers. Thirty-six young adults aged 18–29 (28.1%) and forty-two adults aged 30–59 (32.8%) constitute the majority of the dead (60.9% across the 18–59 working-age span). This is the cohort that sustains the tribe, funds education, and carries day-to-day social obligations; their loss precipitates a predictable collapse in income, guardianship capacity, and access to schooling for surviving dependents. Five elders aged 60+ (3.9%) complete the picture. In practical terms, the tribe has simultaneously lost future capacity, present livelihoods, and the custodians of the tribe's custom and memory.
Bajis Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq
Published on 27 Nov 2025
