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Nigerian rioters killed an estimated 23 people Saturday after a Muslim protest against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed descended into violence. Witnesses told AFP that protesters turned on the Christian minority in the northern city of Maiduguri, burning shops and churches, after police dispersed a rally called to condemn European newspapers that printed the caricatures. An earlier toll had put the number of dead in Saturday's violence in the two northern cities of Maiduguri and Katsina at 16. |
