Man scalped as family feud reignites

A man has been scalped after a long-running feud in a remote Northern Territory town reignited.

A police spokesman told AAP extra officers had been sent to Yuendumu, about 300km from Alice Springs, following a disturbance near the town’s health clinic involving 50-70 people on Saturday morning.

He said it was a ‘no-brainer’ that the incident was linked to an ongoing feud between different family groups in the Aboriginal community.

Two injured people had to be airlifted to Alice Springs for treatment, including a man who appeared to have been scalped, Superintendent Peter Gordon told the ABC.

He said the skin had come away from the man’s scalp.

The man remains in Alice Springs Hospital in a stable condition.

‘A large group of people had gathered near the clinic and were visibly upset,’ Supt Gordon said in a statement.

‘When police tried to calm the situation they had rocks thrown at them.’

A spokesman said the additional police would stay put while they investigated the incident.

In 2010, some residents fled amid violent riots sparked by the fatal stabbing of a Yuendumu man in Warlpiri Town camp, in Alice Springs.

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