Out due to border breaches

FOUR men will be flown back to Victoria on Sunday after being caught using Howard Springs as a “transit centre”, against Northern Territory rules.

The four men flew in from Victoria on Saturday and declared their eventual destination as being a Western Australian mine.

None had been granted an exemption to enter the NT, a statement from Northern Territory Police said.

Incident controller Sachin Sharma said the four men were “either ignorant of, or disregarding the chief health officer directions”.

“Howard Springs is not a transit centre and we will continue to return people who try to enter the Territory without an exemption for the purposes of then continuing to travel interstate.”

Yulara Police on Saturday also issued a South Australian man with an infringement notice after he travelled to the Territory having been in a declared hotspot.

The man, 69, had a South Australian exemption to travel from Victoria as part of his job.