AUSTRALIA INQUIRY INTO YOUTH ABUSE

SYDNEY // The Australian government ordered an inquiry yesterday after graphic evidence emerged of prison guards assaulting teenage boys, with one shown hooded and shackled in scenes likened to Guantanamo Bay. Broadcaster ABC showed footage on Monday of offenders, many indigenous, being stripped naked, tear-gassed and held in solitary confinement for weeks at a youth detention centre in the Northern Territory in 2014 and last year. Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said he was “shocked and appalled” at the images. – AFP