(23 Nov 2002)
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Abuja - 23 Nov
0000 Beauty queens in hotel lobby
Kaduna - 22 Nov
0017 Fire in the street during violence in Kaduna
0025 Building with smoke billowing out
0032 Zoom in to church
0036 Closeup of cross zooms out to wide shot of church
0039 Body on ground
0042 Car windows smashed
0047 Army on streets
Abuja - 23 Nov
0051 Beauty queens in lobby
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Beauty queens from around the world packed their bags and paid hotel bills on Saturday after Miss World organizers moved the pageant from Nigeria to London because of religious rioting.
More than 100 people have been killed in bloodletting between Muslims and Christians that entered its fourth day on Saturday.
Mobs of Christians attacked Muslims in southern neighbourhoods of the northern town of Kaduna because they viewed the pageant's cancellation as a "Muslim victory."
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0002 Packing their bags and paying hotel bills, beauty queens prepared to fly out of Nigeria to London.
0007 The decision came after four days of bloodletting between Muslims and Christians stirred by controversy over the pageant, which Islamic groups have complained is indecent.
0017 Tensions got worse after ThisDay newspaper published an article last weekend suggesting the prophet Muhammad would have approved of the pageant.
0026 The ethnic clashes started on Wednesday in the northern city of Kaduna and spread by Friday to the capital, Abuja, where the beauty contest was to have been held.
0034 Mobs of Christians attacked Muslims in southern neighborhoods of Kaduna "with new bitterness" on Saturday because they viewed the pageant's cancellation as a Muslim victory.
0043 More than 100 bodies were found in Kaduna, and 400 people were in hospital.
0048 Through the violence, the Miss World contestants remained under tight security guard at the Hilton in Abuja - the nation's most exclusive hotel.
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