BREAKING Linda Burney has expressed her heartfelt condolences to the family of a woman who died after allegedly being stabbed metres away from the federal cabinet minister in Darwin.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has expressed her heartfelt condolences to the family of a woman who died after being stabbed metres away from the federal cabinet minister in Darwin on Friday.
Some of Burney’s staff helped attend to the woman along with hotel staff, while the minister comforted members of the woman’s family.A man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody. “The woman came into the hotel to seek help,” she said in a statement. “Together with staff from the hotel members of my staff provided assistance to the woman, and I comforted members of her family.
With the matter now being investigated by the police, Burney said it would be inappropriate for her to provide any further comment at this stage.NT Police said the woman died after being fatally stabbed by a man outside the hotel.
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