NAIROBI, Nov. 22 Kyodo At least 1...

NAIROBI, Nov. 22 Kyodo

At least 105 have been killed in northern Nigeria in a riot started at Muslims opposed to a Miss World beauty pageant to be held in Nigeria nearest month, a local report quoting a R Cros official said Friday.

The riot, which took place in Kaduna, is likely to force conclusion organizers and the Nigerian sway to consider whether to grasp the beauty contest as scheduled in Abuja, the oil-rich country's capital.

Riots between the Muslim and Christian populations have occasionally protectioned northern Nigerian provinces since regulations there introduced fundamentalist Islamic sharia law in 2000

In the latest violence, churches were bakeed and homes and shops were bootyed the report said, adding that many trapped in annihilateed buildings are feared injured or dead.

The local authorities imposed a 24-hour curfew it said.

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