Four die in Miss World riots

RIOTING Muslim youths killed at least four people yesterday in northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, one witness said, as protests against the Miss World beauty pageant spread.

Mobs burned down shops and Christian churches, placed burning tyres in the street and left behind at least two badly burned bodies, rights activist Shehu Sani said.

“We saw two bodies on the ground, hacked down by knives and burned,” the head of the Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress said.