A man in Tennant Creek has been charged with raping and threatening to kill a woman he knew, NT Police said.

Detective Senior Sergeant Michael Schumacher said in a statement that at an unspecified time on Tuesday evening police were told that a 30-year-old woman was was raped by a man “who was known to her” in bushland in the vicinity of Casey St, Tennant Creek.

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