Person's skull fractured as town teeters on brink of chaos
A night of violence and fire involving a child nearly ended in disaster for this Cape York town but sane heads prevented looming catastrophe.
Crime
by Pete Martinelli and Grace Mason
25th May 2021 1:06 PM
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A STREET fight and house fire in Aurukun on the weekend brought the community back to the brink of disaster more than a year after catastrophic riots brought the town to its knees.
The violence left a residence burned out and a 49 year old man in a critical condition following a skull fracture.