Two 12-year-olds and a 14-year-old who allegedly stole a car before later stealing fuel and causing damage to “multiple businesses” across the Greater Darwin region and threatening people with a knife, have been arrested and are facing multiple charges, NT Police said.

A 56-year-old man who allegedly raped a woman in a lane in the Darwin CBD on Tuesday afternoon before fleeing the scene has been arrested, NT Police said.

The Fyles Government have “fooled the public” into thinking they are safer now that transit security guards have been armed with capsicum spray, the union representing the NT’s police officers says, which is nothing more than a “cheap policing program” that will lead to “disaster”.

UPDATED: Two men have died, and a woman is in intensive care, after two separate shootings involving three people in Karama and Millner on Tuesday afternoon and evening, with one shooting thought to have involved a couple, NT Police said.

Transit safety officers have now been trained to utilise capsicum spray on buses seven months after the Fyles Government first announced the plan, that it claims will be used as a “last resort” to keep the public safe, while the Opposition says arming frontline workers with weapons is no substitute for stronger laws.

Three youths have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a security guard at Casuarina Square on Monday afternoon, while using hammers to smash the centre’s security offices, with police calling for the public’s assistance to identify other youths involved in the incident.

A man in a remote community has been charged after allegedly breaking into a house and indecently assaulting two children, and then breaking into another house and indecently assaulting a woman, NT Police said.

NT Police are still trying to determine the identities of six people killed in a crash between a 4WD and a road train near Pine Creek on Friday, with up to four of those in the car believed to be children, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy said.