A man has been charged after allegedly swinging an axe at a man’s head in Alice Springs before slicing through his forearm, and another man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the stabbing of a service station worker in the town NT Police said, while the agency is also looking for witnesses to the assault and robbery of an elderly woman on the streets of Katherine.

NT Police director of communication Mark Wilton said an 18-year-old man was arrested at Hidden Valley Camp in Alice Springs on Thursday and charged with acts intended to cause serious harm or prevent apprehension, damage to property, carrying a controlled weapon at night, and breach of bail for his alleged axe attack on Saturday.

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