Mass Arrests in Bid to Stop Clan Violence in Outback Township

Mass Arrests in Bid to Stop Clan Violence in Outback Township
Women and children cross the main street in the aboriginal town of Wadeye in the Northern Territory, Australia, on April 6, 2005. AAP Image/Dean Lewins
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More than two dozen men and teenage boys have been arrested in a troubled outback community as police work to end weeks of violent confrontations driven by clan rivalry.

Ongoing fighting in Wadeye involving crossbows, spears, axes and machetes has exasperated police amid calls for some residents to be relocated to tribal homelands to reduce clan tensions.