Police investigate reports of wheelchair-bound man being attacked by group of girls in Darwin CBD

POLICE are investigating reports of a wheelchair-bound man being attacked by a group of girls in the Darwin CBD overnight

Police are investigating reports of a wheelchair-bound man being attacked in the CBD overnight

AN itinerant man in a wheelchair has reportedly been attacked by a group of girls in Darwin’s CBD.

The man was asleep in his wheelchair in the CBD at around 2am on Sunday morning when police received reports of a group of girls attacking him and pushing over his wheelchair.

Police believe they were trying to steal from him.

“An attack on a vulnerable person, it’s disgraceful,” Northern Watch Commander Len Turner said.

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Investigations are ongoing.

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