Northern Territory police say community elders helped break up a massive
brawl overnight at the Borroloola Hotel in a community 700 kilometres
south-east of Darwin.
Police say the fight broke out as the pub was closing about midnight,
and up to 250 people were involved.
Hotel staff were forced to barricade themselves behind a security cage
for protection.
Superintendent Colin Smith says police will hold a crisis meeting with
elders, hotel staff and people involved in the fight to make sure it
does not happen again.
"There was quite a large group of people there that were at varying
levels of intoxication," he said.
"There's some indication that hotel staff may have incited some of the
violence that occurred.
"These are all options the police are looking at - it's easy to get
together as a group and discuss them all together with all the
representatives there." |
