The Northern Territory police commissioner has declared a curfew in Alice Springs for the next three nights following a string of violent incidents in the outback town.
The Northern Territory police commissioner has declared another curfew in Alice Springs for the next three nights, following a string of violent incidents in the outback town.Commissioner Michael Murphy had been considering implementing a curfew since Sunday, after what NT Police Minister Brent Potter described as a "horror 72 hours" in the Red Centre.– three women and a man – in the early hours of Sunday morning by a group of about 20 young people.
Commissioner Murphy said the curfew would be enforced "in the confines between Anzac Hill, Schwarz Crescent, down to the hospital, from the Stuart Highway across to Leichhardt and Stott Terrace"."Or alternatively, they can be asked to stay if there's another disturbance and they need to be contained for their own safety.
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