Australian Indigenous protesters and police clash over arrest of suspected killer of 5-year-old girl
Police fired tear gas into a crowd of hundreds of Indigenous people who gathered outside a hospital in the remote town of Alice Springs Thursday night following the arrest of a man accused of killing a five-year-old girl. Members of the crowd, who called for the suspect to be punished according to customary law, attacked police and emergency workers and set a number of vehicles on fire.
Police fired tear gas into a crowd of hundreds of Indigenous people who gathered outside a hospital in the remote town of Alice Springs Thursday night following the arrest of a man accused of killing a five-year-old girl. Members of the crowd, who called for the suspect to be punished according to customary law, attacked police and emergency workers and set a number of vehicles on fire.
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