Northern Territory records multiple deaths in police custody within a week

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Key details reported by multiple sources:

• A 19-year-old man died from a serious stab wound in Katherine on Sunday evening, with police treating the incident as a death in custody due to his care by officers before death (ABC, NEWSCOMAU).
• The Katherine stabbing victim was found in a vehicle with stab wounds by police around 6:45pm on Sunday, after initially being unreachable at the scene (ABC, NEWSCOMAU).
• An 18-year-old man with stab wounds was also found in a vehicle near the Katherine field hospital and airlifted to Darwin in a serious but stable condition (ABC, NEWSCOMAU).
• A 19-year-old driver was arrested in the Katherine stabbing incident and remains in custody (ABC, NEWSCOMAU).
• The Northern Territory recorded its third death in custody in less than a week, following two other deaths in Darwin Correctional Centre and a police vehicle (ABC, NEWSCOMAU, GUARDIAN).
• A 26-year-old man died in Darwin Correctional Centre at 7:50am on Saturday, found unresponsive in his cell (ABC, GUARDIAN, ABC).
• A 25-year-old man died in police custody in Darwin’s northern suburbs on Tuesday after being placed in the rear cage of a police vehicle, where he experienced labored breathing (ABC, GUARDIAN, ABC).
• The 25-year-old man was arrested after reports of assaulting a woman at Tiwi Gardens Retirement Village in Casuarina (ABC, GUARDIAN, ABC).
• The 25-year-old man was pronounced dead at Royal Darwin Hospital at 10:10pm on Tuesday (ABC, GUARDIAN, ABC).
• The Northern Territory’s Major Crime Section and Professional Standards Command are investigating the deaths in custody (ABC, GUARDIAN).
• The Katherine field hospital was established in response to major flooding in the town earlier this month (ABC).
• The deceased in custody incidents are being investigated as deaths in custody and will be reported to the coroner (ABC, GUARDIAN, ABC)