Man in custody after incident at ANU

ACT Policing has responded to an incident at the Australian National University (ANU) this morning (25 August 2017).

Shortly after 9am, a man allegedly assaulted students and a lecturer with a baseball bat. During the class, the student stood from his seat with a baseball bat and approached the lecturer at the front of the class. Other students in the class intervened and attempted to restrain the student. During the incident, the male student assaulted four people, one male and three females, including the lecturer.

Campus security attended and detained the student until police arrived.

The ACT Ambulance Service attended and treated four people for sustained non-life threating injuries and transferred them to the Canberra Hospital.

Police took the 18-year-old man into custody and there is no known ongoing threat to public safety. The man is not known to police or intelligence agencies.

ACT Policing investigations are ongoing. At this early stage in the investigation it is too early to determine the motivation behind the assaults.  

Police are urging anyone who may have any information that could assist police to contact ACT Policing on 131-444.

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