A nurse thought she was going to die when a gang of young people, some of them as young as 11, tried to steal her car at knifepoint.
Anu Chapagain, a personal care assistant at Darwin Hospital, said she thought she was going to have a “heart attack” when four boys tried to steal her car outside her Darwin town home at 6.40pm on Wednesday.
Terrifying footage of the incident shows a young man appearing to throw a projectile at the car window before Ms Chapagain gets out and tries to protest at them.
Later, when she has walked several meters down the road, a barefoot young man runs up to her and points a knife at her face, repeatedly shouting “give me your car right now.”
“I was thinking… what if they kill me? How is my family going to survive?” Ms. Chapagain said. The Australian.
‘I always help them and I am always helping the community and I am working in a hospital, there are many indigenous people there, I am taking care of them in the hospital.
Anu Chapagain (pictured), a personal care assistant at Darwin Hospital, said she thought she was going to have a “heart attack” when four boys tried to steal her car outside her Darwin town home at 6.40am. pm on Wednesday.
Chapagain, who moved to Darwin from Nepal in 2009, told the newspaper she felt “betrayed”.
“My children, my family, my community, everyone in Darwin is not safe,” he said.
The gang of four young people could not start the car because Mrs. Chapagain did not have the key.
They fled and, at 10pm that same night, allegedly assaulted a taxi driver with a “blunt weapon” before stealing “small items” from the vehicle.
“The victim has since been transported to Royal Darwin Hospital for treatment of his injuries,” an NT Police spokesperson said.
‘Police located and arrested two males aged 13 and 14 and two males aged 11.
‘The 13- and 14-year-old boys remain in custody and are expected to be charged later today.
“The two 11-year-old children were placed in the care of a responsible adult and were referred to families in the territory.”
It comes just days after a three-week youth curfew expired in Alice Springs.
The curfew meant that children under 18 could not enter the CBD area between 6pm and 6am