Northern Territory police arrest man after woman found dead in Alice Springs

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Northern Territory police have arrested a 49-year-old man after a woman was found dead in Alice Springs overnight. A crime scene has been established on the banks of the Todd River, and police are calling for potential witnesses. Reporter Charmayne Allison has more from Alice Springs.

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00:00I'm here on the banks of the Todd River in Alice Springs where a woman's body was found

00:07overnight.

00:09As you can see behind me, police have established a crime scene and they're working to comb

00:13the banks of the river for any evidence which could shed light on what took place in the

00:18early hours of this morning.

00:20Police said they received reports at about 12.20am from a 49-year-old man that a woman

00:25was unresponsive near the river.

00:28Emergency services attended and declared the woman dead a short time later.

00:34Police then attended a nearby location and arrested the 49-year-old man and he remains

00:40in custody.

00:41But they confirmed today that they believe it is a DV homicide.

00:45Police say they believe the woman who was killed, allegedly killed, was the 51-year-old

00:51partner of the 49-year-old man.

00:54They believe the woman was assaulted with a weapon which they have confirmed was not

00:58an edged weapon and they're calling for any witnesses to come forward urgently.

01:04It's horrible.

01:05It's not what we wanted or expected.

01:06We're doing a lot of work out there with the community and as you see the prisons are full

01:12and overflowing and I expect that will have a follow on to the safety of the community

01:16which is our focus.

01:18Charmaine, this comes just days after another body was found near Alice Springs.

01:23What's the latest on that?

01:27Police say they're still investigating the death of a man whose body was found on a track

01:31near Alice Springs on Saturday afternoon.

01:34Police say they received reports at about 4pm and discovered the man's body near Undulia

01:40Road.

01:41Police say they're still treating the death as suspicious but they don't believe it was

01:45the result of a homicide.

01:47They say they believe it could be drug related as the man was known to police and was seen

01:52by witnesses walking around naked and erratically prior to his death.

01:57But police are waiting for the results of a post-mortem examination which will take

02:01place tomorrow and we'll just have to wait and see what that post-mortem reveals.

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