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NT nurses stoned after cops forgot them

A nurse says she was injured after acting as a police decoy following the death of Kumanjayi Walker. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

An ambulance crew was pelted with rocks and injured in a remote Northern Territory community after police used them as a decoy to evacuate an officer who had shot dead an Indigenous teenager, an inquest has been told.

Nurse Lorraine Walcott and another health worker were called to Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs, after Constable Zachary Rolfe shot Kumanjayi Walker, 19, three times during a bungled arrest on November 9, 2019.

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