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An Apple manager has apologised to six teenagers of African descent after staff kicked them out of an Australian store citing concerns they “might steal something”, with a video of the incident going viral on Facebook.

The video, recorded by one of the students from Maribyrnon­g College in the southern city of Melbourne, has been viewed almost 60,000 times after it was posted on Facebook on Tuesday with the caption “simply racism”.

“These guys (security guards) are just a bit worried about your presence in our store,” an Apple employee at the Highpoint Shopping Centre store is heard saying in the footage.

“They are just worried you might steal something.”

When one of the high school students asked why they would steal something, the employee said, “end of discussion, I need to ask you to leave our store”.

Apple Australia confirmed to AFP Thursday that the store’s manager had apologised to the students and their school principal Nick Scott when they returned to the shopping centre on Wednesday. (AFP)

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