A 23-year-old Bangladeshi student who is in a critical condition following a violent home invasion in Darwin was attacked in his bed by an alleged intruder in what police have described as a "random event".
The alleged attack on the international student in the early hours of Wednesday morning has shocked the tight-knit community at Charles Darwin University, with its Vice Chancellor saying he had a "feeling of guilt" over previously portraying the Northern Territory capital as a safe place to study.