Anger in N.T. Community after Circumcision Rite Ends
with Three Boys Airlifted to Hospital.
There is still anger in a remote Northern Territory (Australia) community after three teenage boys had to be medically evacuated following an Indigenous initiation ceremony which went horribly wrong.
The boys were part of a group of around 20 who were circumcised two days before Christmas near the small Gulf of Carpentaria town of Borroloola, 700 kilometres east of Darwin.
They were so badly cut during the procedure that they had to be medically evacuated to Darwin for urgent treatment.
Local ambulance driver William Miller arrived at the ceremony to find his 17-year-old grandson Bryce, severely injured.
"I took one look at him and he was sitting in a pool of blood... and that really hurt me, that did," he said.
"I wasn't happy at all, with the whole people who done the job."
Bryce Miller, who had to be airlifted to hospital, had pushed his grandfather to allow him to participate in the ceremony.
"When I got cut, and I seen the blood squirting through on the wrong side, it was bad. Squirting out bad... heaps. And losing a lot of blood," he said.
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