2010 Darwin Shopping Mall Bombing
The 2010 Darwin shopping centre bombing was an incident which occurred on 3 February 2010 at the CBD Plaza shopping centre, located at 47 Cavenagh Street in the Darwin CBD. 19 people were wounded, including a police officer. Bombing In the lead up to the bombing, it is believed the suspect had made several threats to the office, and as a result security had been stepped up at the office. The incident occurred at approximately 11:00am local time, when a dissatisfied customer of the local branch of Territory Insurance Office (TIO) pushed a shopping trolley loaded with petrol cans, and large fireworks into the building, where it then detonated, wounding many inside in the branch. The wounded were taken by ambulance to nearby Royal Darwin Hospital. The streets around the area, as well as the shopping mall which also contained a Woolworths outlet, were closed down while emergency services attended the scene. Soon after the incident a local man handed himself to Police. Despite the ...
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Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes the city's location a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs begin at Lee Point in the north and stretch to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, experiences a tropical climate with a wet a ...
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