They Read the Names Over the Graves in Naridon. All Twenty-Eight.

On Saturday, thousands of people stood in Naridon village, in southern Kaduna, while twenty seven coffins were lowered into the ground.

The attack came the previous Sunday, July 26, shortly before midnight. Armed men moved through the village for nearly two hours. Homes burned. By morning about thirty people were dead, among them, Open Doors reports, ten women and eleven children. The youngest was three years old.

Three of the dead, members of an evangelical congregation, were buried earlier in the week. The rest were laid to rest on Saturday at a funeral Mass led by Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi of the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, with dozens of priests beside him and pastors from every denomination in the area standing with the families. The diocese spokesman, Rev. Abai Peter, described the burial ground: men, women, and children weeping openly as the coffins went down.

Governments count the dead in Nigeria by the round number. A resident of Naridon named Barnabas Musa did something else. He wrote down the names.