Indigenous teenager dies at WA’s Banksia Hill youth detention centre
by Mostafa Rachwani from World news | The Guardian on (#6QBR8)
The 17-year-old is the second child to die in custody in Western Australia in less than a year
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An Aboriginal teenager has died at a detention centre in Western Australia after calling out from a cell prior to his death.
The 17-year-old is the second child to die in custody in the state in less than a year.
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