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Lloyd Jones

Probe into Indigenous man's death after airport custody

An Aboriginal man died in hospital after being taken into protective custody at the Darwin Airport. (Esther Linder/AAP PHOTOS)

An Indigenous man has died in hospital after federal police stopped him from boarding a plane for allegedly being intoxicated, with a death-in-custody investigation underway.

It's the second death in custody in a fortnight in the Northern Territory, following that of young Aboriginal man Kumanjayi White on May 27 after he was restrained by plain-clothes NT officers in an Alice Springs supermarket.

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