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Hundreds of protesters clashed with Australian emergency services workers in a remote town following the arrest of a ⁠man suspected of murdering a five-year-old Indigenous girl, police said today. Australia's Prime Minister, the Northern Territory's police commissioner and a spokesperson for the victim's family all appealed for calm after an angry crowd of roughly 400 Indigenous people gathered last night at the hospital where the suspect was taken after being beaten unconscious by locals. Footage of the protests from public broadcaster ABC showed members of the crowd calling for payback, whic